Word: mooseport
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Dates: during 2004-2004
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Welcome to Mooseport...
...problem--and comedic blessing--of being self-deprecating, honest and ambitious is that you're always in a panic. Right now, the panic is that he has ruined his movie career before it even starts this weekend with his first film, Welcome to Mooseport. People, he's sure, are out to David Caruso him before he even gets going. "You think everybody loves me? Go on the Internet," he says over clubhouse mini-burgers dipped in a mixture of Tabasco and ketchup. "This is why we have the Internet. To keep your head straight. I know where...
...Mooseport and Handy’s relationship are shaken up by the tumultuous arrival of the recently retired U.S. President, a Clinton-hating, Yale-loving jerk named Monroe “Eagle” Cole (Gene Hackman). Through a series of mind-numbing mix-ups (the less said, the better), Handy and the ex-president end up running against each other in the town’s mayoral race. Soon they’re playing a round of golf to decide not only their respective political futures, but who gets to date Sally...
Despite the film’s shortcomings in the area of character development, its good-natured tone and sitcom-simple story make it pleasant enough while it’s onscreen. But in one significant way, Mooseport diverges from its Leave It to Beaver sensibilities, and not by treating complicated social problems or political challenges authentically or intelligently...
...Indeed, Mooseport manages to do just the opposite, ultimately telling its audience that government is best left to cheats and liars. After all, it asks, why shouldn’t they be given power if they want it so badly? It’s a message that dovetails nicely with the film’s in-your-face easygoingness, but one that seems distastefully simpleminded near the start of an election year that is likely to be one of America’s most ugliest and most bitter. The formula has an obvious escapist appeal—one which...