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Audience Rating: G (General Audience) Binding: DVD EAN: 5017188889568 Format: PAL Label: Walt Disney Languages: Manufacturer: Walt Disney Number Of Discs: 1 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Walt Disney Region Code: 2 Running Time: 85 minutes Studio: Walt Disney Theatrical Release Date: April 02, 2000 Editorial Review: Amazon.com: As farfetched kid-movie story lines go, Disney's done worse: Mail to the Chief's highly improbable predicament connects viewers with eighth-grade working-class wunderkind Kenny (Holland Taylor), who accidentally strikes up an online correspondence with the out-of-touch U.S. commander in chief in an Internet chat room. Kenny taps out a message to "Average Joe"--the unlikely screen name of the president (Randy Quaid)--about how politicians "tell you what they want, not how they're going to give it to you," like in math at school, where "you can't just give the answer, you have to show your work." Sinking in an election year because he's a blowhard, the president is soon accepting face-to-face policy advice from the tuned-in teen. But Kenny's home life, meantime, is going down the tubes. What's worse, as the days tick down to the country's big decision, the president, on the advice of his stuffed-shirt advisers, abruptly cuts his ties to Kenny. The chief comes around in the end, of course, and a not entirely lame lesson about honesty and the merits of simple straight shooting is tied up in a neat little bow. Grownups not too proud to admit savoring after-school specials in their younger years will settle into this all-around entertaining movie nicely, and their like-minded kids 8 and older are apt to follow suit. --Tammy La Gorce Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Elisha Is Only In Four ScenesThe only reason you're even thinking of buying this movie is because of Elisha Cuthbert. Well yes she is in this movie, but only four scenes. The plot focuses on a junior high student who through e-mail meets the president (Randy Quad). Elisha appears in only four scenes as the first daughter. Romance springs between the two teens, but it's really just a side plot. They do not even talk or do anything else note worthy. This film could have been much much better if the teen ... Read More Rating:  - Mail to the Chief: Probably the best W.W.O.Disney movie!I loved this movie...it's so awesome. MAIL TO THE CHIEF is about a 13-year-old kid named Kenny Witowski who lives in Baltimore, Maryland. Kenny is very good with computers, but doesn't have a lot of friends and gets bullied by a bunch of kids at his middle school. When he goes into a Chat Room and starts talking to somebody named Average Joe, he doesn't realize that he's actually chatting with the President of the United States...giving the President tips on his politic speeches. (They're having the ... Read More |
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