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See more of Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin

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THEJOURNAL.IE SHOWED YOU a teaser a few weeks back but the full trailer of HBO’s latest film offering is out now.

Game Change follows the 2008 presidential election campaign of John McCain as he tries to create a “dynamic moment”.

As he unleashes little-known Alaskan governor Sarah Palin on America, McCain (played by Ed Harris) realises that “this might not be the campaign he wanted to run”.

We see Palin from her pitbull-with-lipstick moment through to mini-breakdowns and a realisation that she is carrying the campaign on her back.

Moore nails Palin so well (as Harris does McCain) it might be hard to remember that this is a dramatisation of 2008 events and not what really happened.



The film is based on Mark Halperin and John Heilemann’s book Game Change which was released on this side of the Atlantic with the title Race of a Lifetime.

It will be aired for the first time on 10 March.

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  • Kevin Smyth 01/02/12 #
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    What a crazy, deranged, power hungry imbecile.
    “I can do my part in doing things like working really, really hard to get a natural gas pipeline, a $30 billion dollar project that’s going to create a lot of jobs for people in Alaska, and we’re going to have a lot of energy flowing through here — and pray about that also — I think God’s will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that,” she told them, “but I can do my job there, in developing our natural resources, and doing things like getting the roads paved, and making sure our troopers have their cop cars and their uniforms, their guns, and making sure our public schools are funded. But really, all that stuff doesn’t do any good if the people of Alaska’s heart isn’t right with God.”

    Switching to the war in Iraq, Palin told the group of students that they should not only pray for men and women in the military but to make sure the leaders of this country are sending U.S. soldiers “out on a task that is from God. That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God’s plan.”

    http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2008/09/by-juliet-eilperin-when-alaska.html

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  • Tim McSweeney 01/02/12 #
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    Anyone else get a sense of parody from this even though it’s probably billed as political drama? The story seems too recent. Woody said it himself “we live in the era of YouTube and the 24 hour news cycle”… so why the need for a book and a film adaptation?

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    • Peter Nolan 01/02/12 #
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      It’s worth noting that the book itself isn’t a dramatization. It’s a non-fiction book built up from tens of hours of interviews with all the major players. So that was certainly worthwhile to have.

      What’s interesting to me about the movie is that focuses exclusively on the McCain/Palin campaign when the book covers the parallel developments in ALL the major campaigns of the cycle (Obama, Clinton, Edwards and McCain). Events on the McCain trail aren’t even the most bizarre or dramatic covered in the book.

  • Alan Murphy™ 01/02/12 #
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    Brilliant casting. I actually thought McCain was playing himself

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  • Begrudgy 01/02/12 #
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    This looks like a good comedy.

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  • Colm 01/02/12 #
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    They should have got Tina Fey to play Palin.

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