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Call it the Ballot of Dreams: If you build a proper election system, voters will come. One of their votes might even matter. At least that’s the message Kevin Costner brought to the Landmark E Street Cinema on Wednesday night, as he screened his latest film, “Swing Vote.”
In the comedy, due out Aug. 1, Costner portrays an apathetic everyman from New Mexico who ends up holding the one vote that will decide the presidential election.
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“This is an unusual movie for you,” Costner (Levis, untucked and unbuttoned black shirt, well-manicured 5 o’clock shadow) told the crowd assembled by the Center for American Progress.
“There’s a point” to the film, he added, but “take it for what it is — it’s a piece of entertainment.”
Joining Costner in the all-star cast are Kelsey Grammar (who gets his turn as make-believe president), George Lopez, Stanley Tucci and Dennis Hopper. But Washingtonians may be more interested in the cast of familiar faces who have cameos in the film: Chris Matthews, Tucker Carlson, Tony Blankley, Campbell Brown and Lawrence O’Donnell among them.
Costner and co-star Madeline Carroll at Wednesday night’s screening.
Photo: Paul Morigi
