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Title: Great Actors Wasted In Small Town Niceties
Review: Poor Ray Romano gets his first big film with great actors and it's a sad flop. Sure, there is Gene Hackman playing his funny reprisal from "The Birdcage", but Ray is lost without his TV family. The plot is simple - both Ray and the ex-Prez Hackman are running for mayor of the small town of Mooseport, but the laughs are few. Most tragic of all is the wasting of Marcia Gay Harden as Hackman's assistant and Rip Torn is reduced to a minor role. It is a large cast of good B-actors as well. This film could have been something big, but the writing just wasn't there. There are lots of extra, like deleted scenes and such, but they don't add anything to the film that might have been.
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