Swing Vote follows the story of Bud Johnson (Kevin Costner), an apathetic, beer-slinging, lovable loser, who is coasting through a life that has passed him by. The one bright spot is his precocious, over-achieving twelve-year-old daughter Molly. She takes care of both of them, until one mischievous moment on Election Day, when she accidentally sets off a chain of events which culminates in the election coming down to one vote... her dad's.
This movie was a really well done satire on the whole electoral process here in the United States. Ironically, the whole underlying thing about Bud (and the vast majority of our nations population) not caring enough about voting ultimately makes you end up not really caring about this movie. Even though it was actually a pretty good movie and there were decent performances by all (except Costner who was his usual awful self), I found myself just kind of wanting it to end the whole time. Again - not because it was bad but more because I was bored and totally knew how it was going to end before even walking in to the theater.
I would recommend this movie for rental but not in theaters. It does end up being a pretty decent feel good movie, but takes too long to get there and drags a lot along the way.
