When President Bush moved to a ranch near Crawford, Texas, the citizens of this 800-person town had little idea how much their city would come to represent the President. Not that they are all happy about that.
Crawford shows life in a small Midwest town and serves as a microcosm of rural, red-state America. The characters come from all sides of the political spectrum, and the controversy that is reported nationally on the news is played out in the diners of Crawford.
The doc’s website said this about why the film matters:
“Audiences will empathize with the “red” state victims of political stagecraft and leave motivated to question political narratives to come…[T]hey will feel that their experiences under Bush — excitement, misdirection, loss — are in fact shared by the very people they were led to equate with the President. In this way, the film cuts across the Red/Blue divide, promoting engagement over polarization. Audiences will leave this film feeling united in their experience of the Bush era, ready to make informed, engaged choices together in the years to come.”
The full movie should be released in August 2008.
