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April 21st 2006, PG-13, 107mins, Universal Pictures
  Cast: Hugh Grant, Marcia Gay Harden, Mandy Moore, Dennis Quaid, Richard Dreyfuss, Willem Dafoe, Judy Greer, Chris Klein, Jennifer Coolidge, John Cho, Seth Meyers, Bernard White, Jay Harik, Amr Metwally, John Griffin, Karen Gordon, Shohreh Aghdashloo


Director: Paul Weitz
Writers: Paul Weitz


Reviews: Critics Reviews
Links: Related Articles, Official Site
Interviews: Hugh Grant, Paul Weitz

Plot: On the morning of his re-election, the President (Quaid) decides to read the newspaper for the first time in four years. This starts him down a slippery slope. He begins reading obsessively, reexamining his black and white view of the world, holing up in his bedroom in his pajamas. Frightened by the President's apparent nervous breakdown, his Chief of Staff (Dafoe) pushes him back into the spotlight, booking him as a guest judge on the television ratings juggernaut (and the President's personal fave), the weekly talent show American Dreamz. America can't seem to get enough of American Dreamz, hosted by self-aggrandizing, self-loathing Martin Tweed (Grant), ever on the lookout for the next insta-celebrity. His latest crop of hopefuls includes Sally (Moore), a conniving steel magnolia with a devoted, dopey veteran boyfriend (Klein), and Omer, a recent Southern Californian immigrant (who just happens to be a bumbling, show tune singing, would-be terrorist awaiting activation). When both Sally and Omer make it to the final round of Dreamz-where the President will be judging along with Tweed-the stage is set for a show the nation will never forget.