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Directed by Kristian Fraga
All politics is local in this hilarious burlesque of a documentary following a tightly-run mayoral race in the small town of Bogota, New Jersey. When the much-reviled--and legally blind--Republican incumbent Steven Lonegan boldly announces he will run for re-election, the citizens of Bogota go on the offensive to unseat him. Enter Democrat Fred Pesce, coaxed from retirement to share the ticket. With his health in question, and his politics compared to those of Tony Soprano, the field is wide open for sight-challenged town booster and former local football hero Dave Musikant to step in as a long-shot write-in independent candidate--officially making it the only mayoral race in the nation where two of the three candidates are legally blind! Add to the mix the machinations of Jesse "The Body" Ventura`s campaign manager, and Anytown, USA resonates as an all-too-familiar look at the charade of partisan politics in our increasingly polarized nation. ~www.filmmovement.com
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"Anytown, USA tells the story of a particularly heated mayoral race in the small town of Bogota, New Jersey. Director Kristian Fraga captures the essence of small town life in Bogota extremely well, using the camera angles and film score to make viewers invested in the election. The use of footage from local news broadcasts and newspaper headlines moves the film through developments in the race " [More]
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"Although I follow politics, I’m not a political junky and I don’t belong to a political party. Still, I really liked Anytown, USA (2006), a documentary of the 2003 race for mayor in Bogota, New Jersey< " [More]
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"I made a note early in the film Anytown, USA which read “I doubt it’s a coincidence that the pattern of his tie matches the pattern of the chair in which he’s sitting to be interviewed.” The “he” of whom I was speaking is Steve Lonegan, the mayor of Bogota, NJ, one of several mayoral candidates in the 2003 e " [More]
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