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...So Goes the Nation
Directed by
James D. Stern
,
Adam Del Deo
Not Rated
2006
90m
Documentary
6.7
91%
75%
6.9
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A look at the role of the Buckeye State in the 2004 Presidential Election.
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Cast of ...So Goes the Nation
William Bacon
Self
James Baker III
Self (archive footage)
Bob Beckwith
Self (archive footage)
Paul Begala
Self
Osama bin Laden
Self (archive footage)
Ken Blackwell
Self (archive footage)
Wolf Blitzer
Self (archive footage)
John Boehner
Self
Steve Buscemi
Self
George W. Bush
Self
George H. W. Bush
Self (archive footage)
Laura Bush
Self (archive footage)
Mary Beth Cahill
Self
Steve Chabot
Self (archive footage)
Dick Cheney
Self (archive footage)
Max Cleland
Self (archive footage)
Bill Clinton
Self (archive footage)
Katie Couric
Self (archive footage)
Tad Devine
Self
Matt Dillon
Self
...So Goes the Nation Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Sun-Times
Bill Stamets
This informative documentary offers a sound, if uninspiring lesson in civics.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
Documentarians Adam Del Deo and James Stern present a cogent and comprehensive postmortem of the 2004 presidential election in Ohio.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
The film's triple thesis is that elections are run badly, Democrats are often clueless and Republicans are clever. Maybe -- but that still leaves too many unanswered questions.
Spirituality & Practice
Mary Ann Brussat
An unpretty picture of the 2004 Presidential election campaign animated by big money, power politics, negative campaign ads, and hatred.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Directors James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo make Ohio a confounding crucible of the American political machine and a microcosm of the country's cultural and socioeconomic fractures.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Supported by commentary from both Republican and Democratic operatives, the movie confirms what most of us have known all along: Electability is all about staying on message. The truth and verifiability of that message is something else again.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Filmmakers James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo captured fascinating glimpses of the action leading up to the election, as well as the Monday morning quarterbacking (from Republicans and Democrats) about what went wrong or right.
L.A. Weekly
Tim Grierson
From its riveting opening to its gripping conclusion, . . . So Goes the Nation is arguably the most intelligent, kinetic analysis of the modern election process since The War Room.
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
Particularly valuable for its insightful and ultimately depressing portrait of political machinations.
TIME Magazine
Ana Marie Cox
It shows that the rules of politics remain pretty simple: stay on message and don't say stupid stuff. Advice that's as straightforward as good steak -- and just as easy to screw up.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Directors Adam Del Deo and James Stern focus on fieldworkers for both Bush and John Kerry -- plus voters of various loyalties -- in the days leading to the election.
Newsday
Gene Seymour
One still feels twinges of rue at the fair and foul means through which voters were persuaded to re-elect a president widely considered unpopular and, thus, vulnerable to defeat.
Film Journal International
Chris Barsanti
A strikingly mature, but no less passionate, counterpoint to many of the season's angrier political documentaries.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
A what went wrong? documentary that succinctly and ruthlessly dissects the battle for Ohio in the months leading up to the 2004 presidential election.
Variety
Ronnie Scheib
Neither newly revelatory nor formally innovative, docu's even-handed style cannily enables IFC's simultaneous... release in theaters and on cable.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
... So Goes the Nation sticks to reporting. Unlike most political documentaries, it doesn't preach -- to the choir or to anyone else.
Boston Phoenix
Michael Atkinson
A detailed and somewhat straggling account of the 2004 presidential election's flashpoint climax in Ohio.
ComingSoon.net
Edward Douglas
It's frustrating to think that it's too late to do much about what happened.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
In expertly tracing how Republicans play a better game of politics than Democrats, it also provides the party of Kerry and Clinton with a handbook to switching the tables around in 2008.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
In dispassionately presenting American politics, even at its sleaziest, as an honorable craft, it may offer hope to small-d democrats of all flavors.
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