Our Brand Is Crisis

Director: David Gordon Green

Writers: Peter Straughan (screenplay), Rachel Boynton (documentary)

Academy Award winners Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side) and Billy Bob Thornton (Sling Blade) star in the satirical comedy Our Brand is Crisis, from director David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express, George Washington) and producers Grant Heslov and George Clooney, the Oscar-winning producers of Argo.   

A Bolivian presidential candidate failing badly in the polls enlists the firepower of an elite American management team, led by the deeply damaged but still brilliant strategist “Calamity” Jane Bodine (Bullock). In self-imposed retirement following a scandal that rocked her to her core, Jane is coaxed back into the game for the chance to beat her professional nemesis, the loathsome Pat Candy (Thornton), now coaching the opposition.   

But as Candy zeroes in on every vulnerability—both on and off the campaign trail—Jane is plunged into a personal crisis as intense as the one her team exploits nationally to boost their numbers. Our Brand is Crisis reveals the cynical machinations and private battles of world-class political consultants for whom nothing is sacred and winning is all that matters.