Game Change (2012)

Cast

Julianne Moore
as Sarah Palin
Woody Harrelson
as Steve Schmidt
Sarah Paulson
as Nicolle Wallace
Amy Poehler
as Hillary Clinton / Katie Couric

Get more information about Game Change (2012) on IMDb

Genres & Description

Action Biography Drama History

7.4 / 10

Summer, 2008: John McCain secures the nomination, but polls behind Barack Obama. Strategist Steve Schmidt suggests a game changer: picking a conservative female with media savvy, unknown Alaska governor Sarah Palin, as vice president. She's an immediate hit and a quick study - the gap closes. Then, Tina Fey's impersonation, a raft of criticism, and missing her family send Palin into a near-catatonic state: she doesn't prepare for her Katie Couric interview and bombs. Schmidt searches for an answer: don't expect her to learn the issues, but give her a script. Palin does well in the debate with Biden; she finds her voice, goes off script, and goes rogue. A mistake?

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Arizona Homes

i'm glad he lost!! He should have ran as a democrat, as that is what he really was !! If you don't back your own party, you will always lose!! And he did!! Some people have no common sense !! - @Tuesday, December 18, 2018 11:41 PM

marlene g

Nicole Wallace (Sarah Paulsen) said this movie is so accurate it is cringe worthy. - @Saturday, December 15, 2018 11:34 PM

Matt Stastny

RIP John MCcain - @Sunday, August 26, 2018 10:11 AM

Justin Fencsak

HBO should reair this in respect of the passing of mccain - @Sunday, August 26, 2018 1:18 AM

zt1053

Sarah Palin is in good favor with Trump so in a way she had the last laugh. - @Wednesday, June 20, 2018 5:14 PM

Sam Fisher

Surprisingly a good movie lol - @Wednesday, May 2, 2018 2:10 AM

Spermwhale1000

Her best one yet! Won the Emmy. Well deserved. - @Saturday, October 21, 2017 7:26 PM

adrian padilla

Sarah Palin was trump by golly just McCain didn't wasn't like that ! #shook 😯😯 - @Sunday, August 20, 2017 5:36 AM

Ryan Jansen

She can work a crowd but she has a 2nd grade education of the map and any culture outside her own - @Thursday, July 27, 2017 8:46 PM

Williamsfilms

Who wrote the book? - @Sunday, June 25, 2017 2:20 PM

Greg Lites

O M G... the saddest part is the McCain campaign knew she was totally incompetent but they still tried to push the ticket thru to the White House... "Country First"? - that was the biggest lie ever in a presidential campaign - @Tuesday, May 2, 2017 5:10 AM

Edward Altamirano

My god John there are many other intelligent female republicans. She is a great reason why McCain crashed and burned. - @Wednesday, April 26, 2017 11:07 PM

Moderateguy 99

John McCain should have won the election - @Friday, December 23, 2016 9:22 AM

r Negoro

This movie is a propaganda that portrays palin as a selfish, weak, dumb but charismatic woman. - @Saturday, December 10, 2016 4:21 PM

Donald Blair

Amazing and very, very well cast film. You knew Palin wasn't the right choice for the ticket, but you couldn't help feel for her - she wasn't ready for that role and clearly articulated the toll it took on her. Anyone who simply deducts that she's just an unfeeling moron, is a "simple equitable liberal". You know what that means... - @Saturday, October 29, 2016 2:55 AM

FuryC

This is supposed to be GTA V - @Monday, October 17, 2016 2:12 AM

Nick Hamill

Really good movie but I hate seeing the inside of how politics work. It's like school yard bullying. - @Sunday, August 21, 2016 3:15 PM

Elizabeth B

Julianne Moore is A Hollywood liberal. I think it was wrong to have her portray Palin in this movie. Moore hates republicans and thinks liberals walk on water. - @Sunday, August 21, 2016 2:49 PM

GregoryTheGr8ster

It wasn't Sarah Palin's inarticulateness that lost the election for McCain, it was Republican greed and the obviousness that the GOP is simply the puppet of the top 1%. Americans are starting to become FED UP with all the wealth going to the tippy top. We don't have a democracy any more. we have a corporate plutocracy, and the Republicans are the political arm of that plutocracy. - @Tuesday, July 26, 2016 4:50 AM

Thunder bolt

Stupid republicans and Sarah Palin off all, now they have Donald trump too. No wonder the world is never gonna take America serious anymore. - @Monday, July 25, 2016 1:06 AM

Hillary Clinton

Biased ass movie - @Tuesday, June 28, 2016 3:13 AM

Gabriel César

Harrison was great in this movie . He deserved a award - @Tuesday, June 21, 2016 4:19 PM

UCantChangeTheSystem

Sarah Palin was a big, fat mistake! She brought the ticket down from hell in the polls to basically being banished to the trenches of the atlantic ocean. - @Monday, May 23, 2016 2:04 PM

Zege

*first Sarah now trump lol* - @Sunday, May 22, 2016 10:17 PM

Philip M

PSSH, Julianne Moore? Should've brought in Tina Fey for Sarah Palin. You always have TINA FEY AS SARAH PALIN - @Friday, May 20, 2016 7:14 PM

Robert Welliver

I actually loved this movie, I laughed WAY harder than I thought I would at this - @Sunday, February 7, 2016 10:03 PM

Bernie sanders 2016 Screw Shitllary

Nothing has changed. - @Sunday, January 24, 2016 6:47 AM

xxXHannahBlogXxx

Lets face it, a lot of the things the real Sarah Palin didn't know were things that the average person didn't know. In saying that, when you are in, or at least have an interest in, you absolutely have to know these things! John McCain was made an absolute fool to be associated with this woman in the end! - @Monday, January 18, 2016 9:45 AM

Ricardo Murillo

McCain was cool because I would have impailed my advisors for signing her up. Obama should thank Palin for the sabotage, almost made the race into a picnic. I am sure democrats feel sorry for McCain's epic mistake as he was more human compared to Bush. Even a high school drop out knew more than Palin, epic lesson in politics. - @Wednesday, September 23, 2015 10:13 PM

Ethan Radd

My jaw dropped when the name Julianne Moore came up, didn't realize it at first - @Saturday, August 15, 2015 9:59 AM

Aasatruful

How come this is not a comedy. Makes no sense. Here stupidity was so amazing it would make a great comedy. I was expecting something like Idiocracy. - @Saturday, August 8, 2015 9:13 PM

ghayath2011

Julianne Moore did an amazing job in this movie. - @Saturday, May 23, 2015 3:12 PM

Ramius

She was the most embarrassing thing to ever happen in American politics. By far. - @Tuesday, December 16, 2014 3:06 AM

Jesoma

en serio?? - @Sunday, September 14, 2014 11:06 PM

Grigoris Aspridis

Sarah Palin couldn't handle the 2008 campaign, and this film shows it perfectly. She is skilled, but she has a big problem when it comes to foreign policy. And, because of the stress and the pressure on her for that problem, everything else fell just like dominoes. I'm not a Republican, but this woman isn't stupid, she wasn't ready. - @Sunday, July 20, 2014 2:05 PM

Kenny Williams

I just watched this its good but I was about 13 when this was going on can someone tell me was she really this stupid? Was she actually saying this shit in interviews - @Monday, June 23, 2014 4:44 AM

Bryan Hernandez

This movie should've been in theaters. Could've won some Oscars. Great film. - @Saturday, May 10, 2014 3:42 PM

Marchant2

Julienne Moore is a phenomenal actress. She's always been one of my favorites. - @Sunday, January 26, 2014 8:59 PM

mediacritic

This was good. See it. - @Monday, January 20, 2014 2:11 AM

BRB teangelolewistl

I had the Sarah Palin mask for Halloween, frightened half the neighborhood. - @Saturday, January 18, 2014 5:06 AM

pheba100

I only watched that American shit cause Sarah Paulson... Altough Moore isn't that bad... - @Sunday, November 17, 2013 8:56 PM

Malini Correa

Sarah palin is an idiot, but you CAN see Russia from some parts of alaska - @Thursday, October 31, 2013 2:50 AM

CntthnkO15

Whatever this movie is about is great, the problem with today's "democracy" is that it has nothing to do with democracy. If that was true, Ron Paul would have won, without a doubt. When someone pulls in 5+ times more people to his campaign rally's than the opposition and doesn't win, truth speaks for itself. - @Sunday, September 22, 2013 4:18 AM

Alshara Inharika

top lels were had - @Saturday, September 7, 2013 9:45 PM

mikkyochimp

I dont think they went far enough. She is all what is wrong with the USA. - @Friday, September 6, 2013 11:42 PM

Heraclitean

Annoying how they felt the need to exaggerate her dumbness and inarticulateness. - @Monday, August 26, 2013 10:47 PM

TheLio666

ED Harris in NIXON was the best one - @Tuesday, July 9, 2013 12:45 AM

JohnACorp782

You fail in thinking. I'm no kind of an apologist. America is fucked, no matter who your president is. It ain't the president who runs the country in the end anyway. - @Sunday, June 23, 2013 10:19 PM

dsvet

Obama has continued the Bush doctrine 100% he has renewed the Patriot act the NDAA, FISA and the list goes on. He now wages war with his Drone doctrine and has even assassinated 2 American citizens without due process. He attacked Libya without so much as telling congress. Tell us John how is Bush worse than Obama or are you some apologist? I think the latter. Obama is by far one of the worst Presidents we have ever had including Bush and Nixon. - @Sunday, June 23, 2013 7:37 PM

JohnACorp782

Well, I consider Obama the lesser evil. Though America is fucked either way. Worse than Bush? Not quite. - @Sunday, June 23, 2013 4:54 PM