Our Brand Is Crisis

While the film's leading role was set to go to George Clooney, it luckily went to Hollywood favorite Sandra Bullock. Her portrayal of Jane Bodine shows a slightly neurotic, lonely political campaign strategist, who retires for personal reasons and moves away to spin pottery. She lives sans stress, cigarettes and alcohol, leading an ecological lifestyle that lacks the ambitious goals of powering uncertain candidates to electoral victory. She refuses to fess up (even to herself) to missing the tinge of chaos, turbulence and flash at the highest echelons of power. Her tranquility is truncated when former colleagues rear their heads to recruit her into handling the Bolivian presidential elections. Multifaceted cult-favorite director David Gordon Green shows a new ironic and humorous side by taking on political satire starring a no-holds-barred woman. Green's previous movie Manglehorn (with an acclaimed role by Al Pacino) was the closing film of the 2014 American Film Festival.