Spinning Boris

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."