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View All Photos Movie Info. Powerful lobbyist Jack Abramoff Kevin Spacey is on a mission to acquire all the good things that money, power and privilege can buy.
With business partner Michael Scanlon Barry Pepper at his side, Abramoff uses his considerable clout to amass a lucrative and influential personal empire. When Abramoff and Scanlon team up with a mob-connected pal to carry out their latest scheme, they soon find themselves in over their heads.
Drama, Biography. George Hickenlooper. Norman Snider. Dec 17, limited. Jan 4, ATO Pictures. Kevin Spacey Jack Abramoff. Barry Pepper Michael Scanlon. Kelly Preston Pam Abramoff. Jon Lovitz Adam Kidan. Rachelle Lefevre Emily.
Maury Chaykin Big Tony. Daniel Kash Gus Boulis. Spencer Garrett Tom DeLay. Jeffrey Smith Grover Norquist. Jeff Pustil Sen. Bob Ney. George Hickenlooper Director. Norman Snider Screenwriter. Gary Howsam Producer. Bill Marks Producer. George Zakk Producer. Lewin Webb Executive Producer. Donald Zuckerman Executive Producer. Dana Brunetti Executive Producer. Patricia Eberle Executive Producer.
Warren Nimchuk Executive Producer. Angelo Paletta Executive Producer. Domenic Serafino Executive Producer. Adam Swica Cinematographer. William Steinkamp Film Editor. Jonathan Goldsmith Original Music. Matthew Davies Production Design. Pete Emmink Art Director. Debra Hanson Costume Designer. Andrews as Flight Attendant St. George Hickenlooper.
More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Everything is Negotiable. Biography Comedy Crime Drama. Rated R for pervasive language, some violence and brief nudity.
Did you know Edit. Trivia The real-life Susan Schmidt played Jack's secretary in this movie. Additionally, another car appears with a Florida license on the front. License plates for automobiles are printed on one tag only and must be placed on the rear of the vehicle. Only commercial tractor trucks carry Florida plates on the front. Quotes Jack Abramoff : Washington is like Hollywood, but with uglier faces.
Crazy credits Brief footage of the real Jack Abramoff's introduction speech of Tom DeLay is shown during the end credits.
Soundtracks Ballade No. User reviews 54 Review. Top review. Typical HBO style docudrama. A lot of the reviewers on this board are treating this like a real movie and complaining about the style, the pacing, the acting, or whatever. They don't realize that the HBO docudrama is a genre of its own, and they all are directed like this, and have this kind of music and structure and pacing and so on.
If you've seen one, you've seen them all. A self-serving paean to unrepentant individualism, ladder-climbing and egotism disguised as family feeling, the speech is superbly delivered by a pugilistic Kevin Spacey, jabbing at his reflection with his toothbrush.
If only Casino Jack remained this tightly focused on Abramoff, the Jewish philanthropist cum fraud artist, and Spacey's fascinating performance. But the film has a complicated political story to tell, and its erratically suspenseful narrative often detracts from its central interest - what makes Abramoff tick. How does he reconcile his daily prayers with gouging native tribes for lobbying fees?
Director George Hickenlooper, who died from an accidental painkiller overdose while promoting the newly completed film last fall, is determined to cover all the angles and stick to the facts.
A real news clip included with the credits reveals that one scene recreated an actual political event word for word. The result, unfortunately, is a two-headed plot associated with locations - a cruise-ship casino and a native reservation - in which Abramoff is not physically present. The storytelling ranges from cleverly concise Abramoff buying the Zamboni before the hockey rink is built to painfully awkward newspaper clippings flashed on the screen. A lifelong Republican activist, Abramoff who recently completed a jail sentence for fraud and conspiracy built up his lobbying business making sure that minimum-wage laws were not applied to offshore sweatshops and keeping the taxman away from native casinos.
In the film, his downfall is assured when he simultaneously attempts to buy the floating casino on credit, open two swank Washington restaurants and a Hebrew day school - and hit up a Michigan tribe for fraudulent fees to pay for it all.
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