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What do you think she meant when she said “a huge black monster with giant claws”?
What do you think she meant when she said “a huge black monster with giant claws”?
The charm of John O’Brien’s Man With a Plan is twofold. The tale of a retired Vermont farmer who decides to run for Congress, O’Brien’s cult classic has also become an unusual piece of American history. Two years after portraying himself, Tuttle ran for the Senate against a Republican lawyer from Massachusetts, only to endorse Patrick Leahy after winning the primary.
Filmed around the small New England town of Tunbridge, Man With a Plan follows Tuttle as he becomes the antithesis of a career politician. In need of money for his 95-year old father’s hip surgery, Tuttle begins a grass roots campaign against the district veteran, a wiry-haired man named Blachly who’s earned the support of both parties. Tuttle’s also incredibly honest, and his speeches are short, poorly delivered, and incoherent. Nevertheless, his home-grown humility and pureness make him a lovable protagonist, and the film’s humor is admirable and unexpectedly clever.
by Adam Balz | Source: Bellwether Films VHS
22 Mar 2006 1:55 PM | Submit Comment
