Information
| Year: | 2005 |
| Rating: | 6.3(189) |
| Listed in: | Comedy, Music |
| Directed by: | John Kirby |
| Actors: | Lewis Lapham Caton Burwell Paul Cantagallo Keith Witty Jessica Silver-Greenberg Hollis Witherspoon |
| "America Rules the World! But Who Rules America?" | |
Cast
| Directed by | |
|---|---|
| John Kirby | |
| Actors | |
| Lewis Lapham | as Himself - Introduced by |
| Caton Burwell | as Jack Bellamy |
| Paul Cantagallo | as Mike Vanzetti |
| Keith Witty | as Garden Party Jazz Band |
| Steve Blum | as Garden Party Jazz Band |
| Sam Hoyt | as Garden Party Jazz Band |
| Kevin Wilson | as Chef at the Pierre |
| David Robinson | as Bartender at pier 63 |
| Lucas Johnson-Yahraus | as Kitchen Worker |
| Max Wolf | as Kitchen Worker |
| Jonas Oppenheim | as Kitchen Worker |
| Michael Rainin | as Harmonica Player |
| Preston Fulwood | as Keyboardist |
| Edgar Bonilla | as Worker Being Nickle and Dimed |
| Dario Mejia | as Worker Being Nickle and Dimed |
| Hsijae Marsic | as Worker Being Nickle and Dimed |
| Moe Mustafa | as Worker Being Nickle and Dimed |
| Colin McKinnon | as Worker Being Nickle and Dimed |
| Colin Whitfield | as Worker Being Nickle and Dimed |
| Wilson Burdez | as Worker Being Nickle and Dimed |
| Luis Romero | as Worker Being Nickle and Dimed |
| Robert Wakile | as Worker Being Nickle and Dimed |
| Pat D'Antonio | as Worker Being Nickle and Dimed |
| Paolo Re | as Worker Being Nickle and Dimed |
| Billy Kitsados | as Worker Being Nickle and Dimed |
| R. Ackerman | as Worker Being Nickle and Dimed |
| Al Skorupa | as Worker Being Nickle and Dimed |
| Jeff E. Schwartz | as Worker Being Nickle and Dimed |
| John Hansen | as Worker Being Nickle and Dimed |
| George Ruiz | as Worker Being Nickle and Dimed |
| Eddie Arjento | as Worker Being Nickle and Dimed |
| George King | as Worker Being Nickle and Dimed |
| Robert Lintner | as Worker Being Nickle and Dimed |
| Augie Wilson | as Worker Being Nickle and Dimed |
| Enrique Lopez | as Mike Medavoy's Butler |
| Geroge Guilia | as Mike Vanzetti's Limo Driver |
| The Whiffenpoofs | as Acappella Group |
| Dave Solomont | as Trolley Driver |
| Richard Bond | as Trolley Passenger |
| Thomas B. Cosgrove | as Trolley Passenger |
| Avinash Dubin | as Trolley Passenger |
| Michael Harrington | as Trolley Passenger |
| Robert Hines | as Trolley Passenger |
| Alex Stroshane | as Trolley Passenger |
| Sin Wai Stroshane | as Trolley Passenger |
| Sam Trussel | as Trolley Passenger |
| Robert Wilson | as Trolley Passenger |
| James Van Raalte | as Pentagon Press Corp |
| Thomas Farrell | as Pentagon Press Corp |
| Jerry Goodwin | as Pentagon Press Corp |
| John Bradly | as Pentagon Press Corp |
| John Doswell | as The Lion |
| Ryan Rissotto | as Banker Party |
| Sam Hall | as Banker Party |
| Alex Rosenfeld | as Banker Party |
| Bryan McArdle | as Banker Party |
| Taylor Smith | as Banker Party |
| David Schmierer | as Banker Party |
| Basak Yeltekin | as Banker Party |
| Steve Bussen | as Goldman Sachs Associate |
| Qasim Naqvi | as Goldman Sachs Associate |
| Erich Strum | as Goldman Sachs Associate |
| Moar Tejeiro | as Goldman Sachs Associate |
| Jae Song | as Goldman Sachs Associate |
| Sydney Fishman | as Empire Falls Singer and Dancer |
| Norman Franklin | as Empire Falls Singer and Dancer |
| Aaron Jacobs | as Empire Falls Singer and Dancer |
| Joe Lerangis | as Empire Falls Singer and Dancer |
| Sam Levin | as Empire Falls Singer and Dancer |
| Billy Rayner | as Empire Falls Singer and Dancer |
| Anthony Sanchez | as Empire Falls Singer and Dancer |
| Robert Altman | as Himself |
| James Baker III | as Himself - Frm. Secretary of State |
| Bill Bradley | as Himself - Fmr. U.S. Senator |
| Harold Brown | as Himself - Fmr. Sec. of Defense |
| Hodding Carter III | as Himself - Fmr. State Dept. Spokesman |
| William T. Coleman | as Himself - Fmr. Sec. of Commerce |
| Walter Cronkite | as Himself - Fmr. CBS News Anchorman |
| Vartan Gregorian | as Himself - President Carnegie Corporation |
| Doug Henwood | as Himself - Economic Essayist |
| Mike Medavoy | as Himself |
| Joseph S. Nye | as Himself - Fmr. Acting Sec. of Def. |
| John Perkins | as Himself - 'The Economic Hitman' |
| Pete Seeger | as Himself - Folksinger |
| Arthur Sulzberger | as Himself - Chairman, New York Times Company |
| Lawrence H. Summers | as Himself - Fmr. Pres. - Harvard U. - Cheif Econ. - World Bank |
| Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | as Himself - Novelist |
| Howard Zinn | as Himself - U.S. Historian |
| Actresses | |
| Jessica Silver-Greenberg | as Taylor Meade |
| Hollis Witherspoon | as Emily Gann |
| Catherine Mathis | as Herself |
| Caroline Camougis | as Herself |
| Kathleen Landis | as Diner |
| Eileen Eichenstein | as Diner |
| Susan Tsao | as Diner |
| Melody Ruby | as Gail |
| Marie Nelson | as Worker Being Nickle and Dimed |
| Joan C. Sooknaran | as Worker Being Nickle and Dimed |
| Cherece Dickens | as Worker Being Nickle and Dimed |
| Gloria Curiel | as Worker Being Nickle and Dimed |
| Tereza Guraj | as Worker Being Nickle and Dimed |
| Yoko Zyan | as Worker Being Nickle and Dimed |
| Jean Marie Lalama | as Worker Being Nickle and Dimed |
| Stephanie Shade | as Worker Being Nickle and Dimed |
| Kim Crawley | as Worker Being Nickle and Dimed |
| Maura Kehoe | as Worker Being Nickle and Dimed |
| Mary Bauchoux | as Worker Being Nickle and Dimed |
| Paulette Benz | as Worker Being Nickle and Dimed |
| Christina Benz | as Worker Being Nickle and Dimed |
| Christina Morris | as Worker Being Nickle and Dimed |
| Bhagmattie Ljobin | as Worker Being Nickle and Dimed |
| Mercedes Ruiz | as Worker Being Nickle and Dimed |
| Julie Rose | as Worker Being Nickle and Dimed |
| Ciscilyn Harriet | as Worker Being Nickle and Dimed |
| Ruby Kahn | as Worker Being Nickle and Dimed |
| Emma Rose Kirby | as Worker Being Nickle and Dimed/The Lamb |
| Jennifer Ashworth | as Trolley Passenger |
| Natasha Ashworth | as Trolley Passenger |
| Jacqueline Billings | as Trolley Passenger |
| Cecily Christian | as Trolley Passenger |
| Linda Cosgrove | as Trolley Passenger |
| Christina Crawford | as Trolley Passenger |
| Molina Derek | as Trolley Passenger |
| Michaela Duffy | as Trolley Passenger |
| Adelbert Entremont | as Trolley Passenger |
| Mercedes Gumuchian | as Trolley Passenger |
| Sarah Lee | as Trolley Passenger |
| Kristina Parnell-Keer | as Trolley Passenger |
| Imma Messeroux | as Trolley Passenger |
| Meaghan Moulton | as Trolley Passenger |
| Rehana Vaidya | as Trolley Passenger |
| Melissa Watson | as Trolley Passenger |
| Shira Wohlberg | as Trolley Passenger |
| Chinyan Wong | as Trolley Passenger |
| Dorothy Price Hill | as Pentagon Press Corp |
| Nancy Pearson | as Pentagon Press Corp |
| Wendye Hearsh | as Pentagon Press Corp |
| Sheila Steffen | as Pentagon Press Corp |
| Lindsay Brillson | as Banker Party |
| Stephanie Schlosser | as Banker Party |
| Olivia Recanelli | as Banker Party |
| Jeralyn Gerisa | as Banker Party |
| Hannah Sutton | as Banker Party |
| Caroline Burwell | as HR Assistant |
| Lydia Davidson Whitcomb | as Goldman Sachs Associate |
| Azealia Banks | as Empire Falls Singer and Dancer |
| Christina Franklin | as Empire Falls Singer and Dancer |
| Nancy Lan | as Empire Falls Singer and Dancer |
| Jarena Lee | as Empire Falls Singer and Dancer |
| Casey Wenger-Schulman | as Empire Falls Singer and Dancer |
| Barbara Ehrenreich | as Herself - Journalist |
Movie info
| Languages: | English |
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Quotes
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Jack Bellamy: Well, I've got an offer from Goldman Sachs to work in investment banking in New York City. Himself - Fmr. editor Harper's Magazine: That's fantastic. Are you excited about that? Jack Bellamy: Sure, I guess. Himself - Fmr. editor Harper's Magazine: No guess. Great career. You meet a lot of nice people. Make a lot of money. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth, Jack. And what about you, Mike? Mike Vanzetti: Actually, I thought I might take a year to write and work some odd jobs. Himself - Fmr. editor Harper's Magazine: A shocking misuse of your parent's money. Mike Vanzetti: So they tell me. Himself - Fmr. editor Harper's Magazine: Both you gentlemen have a chance to become members of the American ruling class and I don't see why you don't avail yourself of that opportunity. Jack Bellamy: Ruling class? Himself - Fmr. editor Harper's Magazine: As was true in the early years of the Republic, the country is governed by a commercial oligarchy and the citizen who cannot afford the luxury of a contrary opinion learns, of necessity, to dance the beggar's waltz. Himself - Folksinger: /singing/ Some say that human kind won't long endure. What makes them feel so doggone sure? I know that you who hear my singing could make those freedom bells go ringing. Mike Vanzetti: No offense, but do you really think you can change things, much less the world, by walking down a country road singing a song? By singing a song anywhere, at any time, for anybody, for that matter? Himself - Folksinger: I suppose not, but I am going to make darn sure the world isn't going to change me. It's like this. Imagine a big sea saw and one end is on the ground, because it has a basket half full of rocks in it. The other end is up in the air, because it has a basket one-quarter full of sand. And some of us got teaspoons and we are trying to fill it. And of course most people are kinda scoffing at us. They say, "Don't you see it's leaking just as quick as you are putting it in? People like you been trying for centuries, but it's never going to change." And we say, "You might be right, but we think we get more people with teaspoons all the time and one of these days that whole seasaw is going to go zooop, and people will say 'Gee, how did it happen so suddenly?' Us and all our little teaspoons, over the centuries." Who knows? /Starts singing/ And so we keep on, while we live, and have no, no long to give. And when these fingers can strum no longer, and the old banjo to young ones stronger. Mike Vanzetti: So as chairman and publisher, how do you balance all these competing interests you've got - the family, the trust, the newsroom, the audience, the advertiser? Himself - Chairman, New York Times Company: The stock market? Mike Vanzetti: Thank you. Himself - Chairman, New York Times Company: We worry a little bit about our earnings and our stock prices. Once every quarter, the executive editor, in this case, Bill Keller, gets into the ring and the CEO, Russ Lewis at the moment but soon Janet Robinson, and they duel it out. They just have a fistfight, and whoever wins for the next quarter we worry more about the journalism or we worry about the profits. It's a very simple operation. It's a balancing act. It's easy. Anyone can manage for one. Anyone can manage for the other. You manage for nothing but the quality of the journalism. You can manage for nothing but the quality of the profits. And that's easy. The challenge is to manage for both. Jack Bellamy: We've been trying to discover: if in fact there is an American ruling class? Himself - Fmr. CBS News Anchorman: I'm afraid there is. I don't think it serves democracy well, but that is true, but I think there is. The ruling crass [sic] is the rich, who really command our industry, our commerce, our finance, and those people are able to so manipulate our democracy that they really control democracy... I feel. [Cut to historical footage] And that's the way it is. Jack Bellamy: How do you get into the ruling class? Himself - Fmr. CBS News Anchorman: If you are smart enough, the ruling class will invite you in. They need smarts, they need intelligence, they need education, and they need to continue to survive as a ruling class. Himself - Fmr. State Dept. Spokesman: There is something fatally attractive about joining the ruling class, starting of course with the pay, but also with the prestige and the like. But fatally ought to go with attractive, in many cases, because it means for a large part you're getting ready to forget about half of what you learned at Yale or anywhere else, that there are obligations in this democratic republic which I still, perhaps naively, believe need to be factored in. I do not actually believe that society is best served by everybody running avidly after their own self interest. I particularly think: that it is betrayal when the best and the brightest decide that their being the best and the brightest means that they jump on the gravy train and tell everybody else kiss mine as I leave the room. If there is no last morality here to be offered, it is an individual question. The last thing people always say as they go out is not 'I wish I had had more money.' They're usually wishing something else, about what they did with their lives. |
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