Welcome to Mooseport (2004)
Directed by Donald Petrie
A US president who has retired after two terms in office returns to his hometown of Mooseport, Maine and decides to run for Mayor against another local candidate.
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If nothing else, I find it difficult to believe that a filmmaker whose career has featured as many high points as anyone else working today would want to pull a Gene Hackman and go out with something that is nowhere near his best work, as the actor did by apparently bowing out with the aggressively mediocre " Welcome to Mooseport ."
The film, which also stars Maura Tierney, Rip Torn and Christine Baranski, was directed by Donald Petrie (“How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days”).
It doesn't help that director Daniel Petrie (How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days) deadens any possible momentum or energy; he can't even make one of our greatest actors, Gene Hackman, appear presidential.
The whole thing is directed by Donald Petrie, who not only made the theatrical movies "Grumpy Old Men," "Miss Congeniality," and "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" but TV episodes of "The Equalizer," "L.A. Law," "Picket Fences," and "Chicago Hope."
They have none of the spark Petrie exhibited in "Mystic Pizza'' and "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.''
Donald Petrie , who made his directorial debut in 1988 with the Julia Roberts starrer Mystic Pizza , has a flair for helming fluffy comedies that succeed because of their star power rather than their stories (read: 1993's Grumpy Old Men starring Jack Lemmon , Walter Matthau and Ann-Margret ; Sandra Bullock 's 2000 comedy Miss Congeniality ; and last year's How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days with Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey ).
Director Donald Petrie (of the insufferable "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" ) and writer Tom Schulman -- whose track record ranges from the banal ("Dead Poets Society") to the bloody awful (the Eddie Murphy bomb "Holy Man" ) -- don't seem to realize they're working with a cast full of unsympathetic characters here.