20th Century Fox
Directed by Robert Altman
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Fox Movie Channel)
A Florida health food convention stands in for a political convention in Altman's satirical view of American politics. It is not clear to me why he didn't just go ahead and set this at a political convention, as the health food angle adds nothing but a few cheap laughs. Dick Cavett plays himself as a talk show host broadcasting live. The threadbare plot revolves around two women running for president of the HealtH organization. They are both a little crazy. Carol Burnett is a government official and James Garner an assistant to one of the candidates. They rekindle an old romance while roaming around the nuttiness on display. It's poorly acted, the script is unfocused and it's constantly underlit.
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