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Release Date: June 22, 2012 (Limited)
On DVD: October 2, 2012
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Director: Stephen Gyllenhaal
Writer: Stephen Gyllenhaal, Justin Rhodes
Cast: Cobie Smudders, Jason Biggs, Joel David Moore, Christopher McDonald, Cedric the Entertainer, Tom Arnold
Studio: Samuel Goldwyn Films
Running Time: 97 minutes
MPAA Rating: Rated R for pervasive language and brief drug use

It's 2001 before Twitter, before the flash mob and before Obama. A political unknown named Grant Cogswell (Joel David Moore) decides he must take down Seattle City Councilman Richard McIver (Cedric the Entertainer). Grant has only one dream, but it's a big one: an elegant monorail gliding silently above the city's wet streets, with only a tiny footprint – "like a kids' lemonade stand!” – on the ground. He is apoplectic with rage over McIver's...

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The high-stakes world of Seattle politics gets the big screen treatment with Grassroots. I'd be lying if I said it was a movie only a Seattleite could love, because Grassroots is a well-acted and entertaining drama - albeit one that fades in the home stretch.

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