Spinning Boris
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Director Roger Spottiswoode Producer Cydney Bernard Duration Country United States | 6.8/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Drama Initial DVD release September 28, 2004 Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Yuri Zeltser , Grace Cary Bickley Release date October 23, 2003 Cast Jeff Goldblum (George Gorton), Anthony LaPaglia (Dick Dresner), Liev Schreiber (Joe Shumate), Boris Lee Krutonog (Felix Braynin), Svetlana Efremova (Tatiana Dyachenko)Similar movies The Candidate (1972), Primary Colors (1998), Liev Schreiber and Anthony LaPaglia appear in Spinning Boris and Mental, Running Mates (2000), Bob Roberts (1992) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Spinning Boris is a 2003 American comedy film starring Jeff Goldblum, Anthony LaPaglia and Liev Schreiber. It was directed by Roger Spottiswoode. In the film, a Russian political elite hires American consultants to help with Boris Yeltsin's reelection campaign when his approval rating is down to single digits.
The film is based on the true story of three American political consultants who ran the successful reelection campaign of Boris Yeltsin in 1996, although some question the degree of involvement of the Americans in Yeltsin's reelection. The 1996 elections were marred by rampant vote fraud and in 2012, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev explicitly said that "There is hardly any doubt who won [that race]. It was not Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin."
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