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Raising Buchanan
Directed by
Bruce Dellis
Not Rated
2019
1h 45m
Comedy
5.5
71%
80%
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A desperate woman steals the corpse of former US president James Buchanan, hoping to net a large ransom. Complications arise when it seems no one is particularly interested in getting him back.
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Cast of Raising Buchanan
René Auberjonois
President James Buchanan
Amanda Melby
Ruth Kiesling / Producer
Cathy Shim
Meg
Terence Bernie Hines
Phillip Crosby
M. Emmet Walsh
Larry Kiesling
Robert Ben Garant
Lancaster Guy
Jennifer Pfalzgraff
Holly
Shannon Whirry
Parnella Monroe
Steve Briscoe
Errol
Lynnette 'L.A.' Brown
Gretchen
Max Bullis
Dante
Shelly Boucher
Trina
Zoë Yeoman
Captain Jarvis
Laura Durant
Mrs. Laura Warren
Saylor Billings
Biker Chick Vent
Dustin Leighton
Sideburn Vent
Kane Black
Brock
John Batchan
Wyatt
Ted Raymond
Elderly Man
Bruce Nelson
Hostetler
A.J. Jarrell
Library Security Guard
Kim Byers
Waitress
Joseph Sedillo
County Sherrif's Deputy
Bruce Klefstad
Gunderson
Hayden Domenico
Mormon #1
Tucker Myers
Baby Kyle / Jeffrey
Ford Myers
Baby Kyle / Jeffrey
Jeremy Rhodes
Mormon #2
Bruce Dellis
Director / Writer
Joe Gruberman
Producer
Raising Buchanan Ratings & Reviews
Culture Mix
Carla Hay
Raising Buchanan gets a little too unfocused toward the end of the film by trading in satire for sentimentality, which lessens the intended impact of the story.
North Shore Movies
Daniel M. Kimmel
A first feature for director Bruce Dellis, who also wrote the screenplay, Raising Buchanan is the sort of quirky independent comedy that one stumbles upon when looking for something different.
Austin Chronicle
Richard Whittaker
It's all absurd, which adds to the charm, knowing that everyone here (even the 15th president of the United States) is vaguely ridiculous, yet with some redemptive depths. We're all flawed, Dellis says, but there are worse things to be.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
There are some interesting ideas on display, but the film is underwritten; a few more passes at the script might have tightened things up.
Film Threat
Nick Rocco Scalia
Surely, Buchanan was never going to earn the kind of cinematic lionization that so many American filmmaking greats (like Steven Spielberg and John Ford) gave to good old Abe Lincoln, but he could have done a whole lot worse than this.
Crooked Marquee
Josh Bell
Auberjonois is so good as the feckless leader, nobly defending his poor decisions, that it makes you long for a full one-man show that will never come.
Phoenix Magazine
M.V. Moorhead
Simply as a showcase for two of the best character actors of the last fifty years, Raising Buchanan deserves praise.
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