Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Brooklynn There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

pepe4u22 my gf and I were looking for a movie to watch and she decided to select this..i noticed gene Hackman starring thinking well gene makes good movies too many to mention here so why not ..so here is poor gene playing a president and who is his costar, the charisma free and comically challenged Ray Romano Every joke was lame and this movie was a good 30 minutes too long. The love triangle is staged and wooden and I thought out of this movie a better movie existed and that would have been the Christine baranski/gene Hackman characters who were more interesting than sad sack ray and laura Tierney who is good considering what she has to work with. the rip torn character was funny along with the rest of the presidential entourage..if they tried to use this movie to springboard ray romano's career well this bombed but that is good because it saved the public from more crap like this.

bigverybadtom This was Gene Hackman's last movie role, and Ray Romano's first time on the big screen. Romano was good enough on television with "Everybody Loves Raymond", but he seemed at sea in this movie. Not that the story was anything to write home about.The story involves a just-retired two-term President who travels to the title small town when the current mayor dies in office. The President is divorcing his wife, and has a vacation home in the town which he wants to keep, so he runs for mayor in the special election. Meanwhile, the local hardware store owner played by Romano has his girlfriend ready to leave him, so he runs for mayor to impress her.This movie is not really about politics so much as a romantic comedy. It is at best mildly amusing, and if you want to be amused by Ray Romano, stick to reruns of the "Everybody Loves Raymond" show instead.

studioAT Ray Romano makes the bold first step into feature films and judging by this films gross and other reviews it looks like his foot got burned.This film is an enjoyable enough piece with a few good laughs and a decent story. Romano and Hackman work well together and Fred Savage is good as the Presidents aide. It just lacks that killer punch that Romanos sitcom has and the jokes don't run as fluently as they could. Romanos character is so similar to his sitcom character that we are left waiting for his co-stars on the show to appear. Sadly they do notRomano is a charming and funny guy and his charm carries the film and it is only when he is not on screen the film that the film really starts to flag. With the right script Romano could still have a film career but I think if he's waiting for the script for "Welcome Back to Mooseport" to come through his letterbox he could be waiting a long time.

denscul Gene Hackman proves that a good actor can still hold an audience in their seats until the credits roll. And this was done despite a bad script that tried to make him appear incredibly trite. This was the first time I had seen Ray Ramano, I don't have TV or cable where I live, so I exist on DVD's. My mother is a big fan of his from TV. I felt that he may be, like Seinfield a better comic than actor. I thought the only realistic character was played by an aging Rip Torn.Even a comedy requires some attachment to reality. But the plot is too detached from reality to succeed. This is not a Marx Brother's comedy.I was troubled from the start by the obvious distortion of logic that has a rather sophisticated man picking Mooseport as his place of retirement. Neither he, nor his caricature of a wife seem to be the type of people who would choose Mooseport.Then there was all the commotion about his arrival. Hadn't he arrived before? The hardest pill to swallow was running for Mayor because of a twinkle in the eye of the town's vet, who was pleasant enough for Romano's character, but the idea of her attracting a former President was not funny, but just silly. That's what really ruined the movie. I did enjoy the golf game. By the way, I've been to Maine, and I've never seen such beautiful weather. This movie was not made on location was it? In most small towns, if someone dies in office, someone is appointed or in some cases, the office remains unfilled until the next election.