Producers Paula Weinstein and the late Sydney Pollack brought director Jay Roach onto the project when it was already in preproduction, with Pollack attached to direct, after Pollack’s illness made it too difficult for him to continue to work on the film. As we progress though the 2008 election season, the film can be seen as a call for a democracy to count all the votes cast. It spans the period from the disputed vote counts of November 7, 2000, to the December Supreme Court ruling that stopped the Florida recount and awarded Bush the White House. Using archival footage and an A-list ensemble cast, the HBO film Recount chronicles with chilling authenticity the final five weeks of the 2000 presidential election between George W.
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