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08/05/07
Welcome to Mooseport (2004)
13 %
Reviews Counted: 142 Fresh: 19 Rotten:123 Average Rating: 4.2/10
Consensus:
A bland comedy that squanders a talented cast.
Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
Synopsis: The quiet, charming town of Mooseport, Maine is invaded by the former president of the country in this Capraesque comedy starring Ray Romano and Gene Hackman. Monroe "The Eagle" Cole (Gene Hackman) is a hugely popular Clinton-era former president, who retires to bucolic Mooseport, Maine... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Gene Hackman, Ray Romano, Maura Tierney, Christine Baranski, Marcia Gay Harden
Director: Donald Petrie
Screenwriter: Tom Schulman
Story: Doug Richardson
Producer: Tom Schulman, Basil Iwanyk, Mark Frydman
Composer: John Debny
Screenwriter: Tom Schulman
Story: Doug Richardson
Producer: Tom Schulman, Basil Iwanyk, Mark Frydman
Composer: John Debny
Reviews
Whose story is this? Nobody's. We don't know whom we're meant to root for...
07/23/07
This lackluster production fails to generate much in the way of tension and less in the way of merriment.
01/09/07
The movie never takes its material far enough, it's never daring, it's never edgy, it's never satiric. It's just, well, it's just TV.
06/10/04
a pretty enjoyable film and if you’re looking for a distraction from all of the real world politics, at least the laughs in “Mooseport” are intentional.
04/15/04
The script is so weak, so illogical, so bereft of actual humour that it takes the considerable charm of the cast merely to prop it up.
04/09/04
This comedy about politics in a small community must have looked good on paper, with Gene Hackman and Ray Romano on board, but it just fizzles.
03/25/04
Clunkily earthbound as its characters and the situations plod forward while never getting anywhere.
03/16/04
Lord knows we need to laugh about politics, but when it comes to salving our Oval Office wounds, Welcome to Mooseport is like taking a baby aspirin for pneumonia...
03/12/04
Not even accidentally amusing, is dumber than a Lyndon Larouche campaign, and features a love story that can only be described as icky. Make that two love stories, and they're both icky.
03/08/04
The comedy quotient, waning from the start, becomes nonexistent whenever it's placed in Romano's clumsy mitts.
03/03/04
a political satire that wants to be little more than a warm’n’fuzzy comedy
03/01/04
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