Last Party 2000 (2001)

User Rating:

6.4/10   

Directors:

Rebecca Chaiklin
Donovan Leitch

Release Date:

29 January 2003 (France)

Genre:

Documentary

Plot:

Filmed over the last six months of the 2000 Presidential election, Phillip Seymour Hoffman starts documenting...

Plot Keywords:

Campaign | Election | Politics | 2000s | Protest

Cast

Philip Seymour Hoffman	...	Himself - Narrator
Ben Harper	...	Himself
Noam Chomsky	...	Himself
Harold Ford Jr.	...	Himself (as Rep. Harold Ford Jr.)
Tim Robbins	...	Himself
John Sellers	...	Himself
Susan Sarandon	...	Herself
Christopher Shays	...	Himself (as Rep. Christopher Shays)
Bill Maher	...	Himself
Rosie O'Donnell	...	Herself
Melissa Etheridge	...	Herself
Courtney Love	...	Herself
Antonia Novello	...	Herself (as Dr. Antonia Novella)
Rudolph W. Giuliani	...	Himself (as Mayor Rudolph Giuliani)
The Interpreters	...	Themselves

Also Known As:

The Party's Over (USA) (video title)

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Australia:PG (DVD rating) | Australia:M | France:U

Filming Locations:

Austin, Texas, USA

Company:

Camouflage Productions Inc.

Goofs:

Factual errors: When Representative Barney Frank is first introduced on screen, he was mistakenly identified as a Republican. In fact, he is a Democrat.

Quotes:

Harold Ford Jr.: The two most important things in power. Number one is money, and the second thing I can't really remember.

Movie Connections:

Features "The Oprah Winfrey Show" (1986)

Soundtrack:

Over Yonder (Jonathan's Song)

Excellent, thought-provoking, well constructed.

The Party's Over is a carefully constructed and thought-provoking look at both the democratic and republican parties, centering around each of their conventions before the 2000 election. The film makers got access to both conventions and do a wonderful job of showing the amazing hypocrisy of the US democratic process.

The film makers are clearly and unapologetically left-leaning, but that doesn't translate to sparing anyone. Only the greens come out well, but even that is undermined by the outcome of the 2000 election, which is the film's enervating denouement.

Mr. Hoffman does a great job with the interviews, becoming more confident as he moves along, and there's a charming exchange between him and Michael Moore, to whom he bears physical similarity.