Who's seen the movie "Dave" with Kevin Kline as the POTUS who faked his own death?

[flibbitygiblets]

I feel like we're about to see a variation of that. * knows he's going to lose the election. If he does, he'll go to prison (and possibly get a polonium cocktail). Faking his own death might be his only chance to get while the gettin's good.

OK, yes I'm being a bit hyperbolic. But I wouldn't put anything past this guy.

[sweetloukillbot]

1. Oh for fuck's sake... nt

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

2. Wait, didn't the real president die doing it with a misstres? Or was that Wag The Dog? Or

both???

[flibbitygiblets]

6. I think he had a stroke with his mistress, who was his assistant.

And was in a coma, why is why they brought in a lookalike (Kline).

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

11. Yes! I remember now. nt

[Aristus]

3. The President in "Dave" didn't fake his own death.

He suffered a real stroke, and his power-mad cronies hired a look-alike to impersonate the President until one of them could maneuver his way into the Vice Presidency, and then reveal the real President's "death", thereby making himself President.

[RockRaven]

4. I think the potus had a stroke while boinking his mistress and the staff found a lookalike...

Who ended up being a decent potus and falling in love with the first lady, iirc. Then the lookalike fakes his death in public and they pull the plug on the real potus.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

5. The real prez had a stroke and was secretly in a coma. When he died, "Dave" faked a public death.

[flibbitygiblets]

8. Right, I remember now. Thanks Gidney!

[Binkie The Clown]

7. He didn't fake it. He had a stroke and was in a coma so his aides got a double...

...to take his place. A pretty good movie, as I recall.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106673/

[FraDon]

9. Dave was a kind-hearted look-alike,

smuggled into the White House when the jerky POTUS dies.

[CloudWatcher]

10. Spending to "feel better"

I was just thinking of this movie .. in particular the scene where "Dave" questions whether or not spending to convince people they've spent wisely on a car they've already bought ... and thinking it looked a lot like the $300 million CDC campaign to make people feel better about the virus.

[Tanuki]

12. Cf. the Akira Kurosawa classic Kagemusha

[matt819]

14. Forget the movie reference

And put aside the first response.

And, yes, tinfoil hat alert.

Do we put it past him to do that?

Or to “fake” a stroke and resign. But the “stroke” puts him in the Vincent gigante category. Too debilitated to be prosecuted.

[Mme. Defarge]

13. Has anyone seen Alec Baldwin lately?

Btw, I love that movie.