It's 2001, before Twitter, before the flash
mob and before Obama. A political unknown named Grant Cogswell (Joel
David Moore) decides he must take down Seattle City Councilman Richard
McIver (Cedric the Entertainer). Grant has only one dream, but it's a
big one: an elegant monorail gliding silently above the city's wet
streets, with only a tiny footprint--"like a kids' lemonade stand!"--on
the ground. He is apoplectic with rage over McIver's mass transit
proposal: a ground rail train he thinks will destroy lower class
neighborhoods, wreak environmental harm on the local salmon population,
and destroy the city. Grant has no campaign contributors, a tendency
toward outbursts of profanity, and a snowball's chance in hell--until he
lures recently fired alternative-weekly reporter Phil Campbell (Jason
Biggs) to run his campaign. Phil may be a political neophyte, but he has
the tact that Grant lacks and a 'what-
the-hell-I-haven't-got-anything-better-to-do' attitude... until he
recruits an army of wild-eyed young volunteers to back their unlikely
crusade, and the impossible begins to happen.
Directed by: Stephen Gyllenhaal
Starring: Cobie Smulders, Jason Biggs, Joel David Moore, Christopher McDonald, Cedric The Entertainer, Tom Arnold.
