My Fellow Americans

I did not have high expectations of My Fellow Americans, but I was pleasantly surprised, for it is a very funny little comedy with good chemistry between Lemmon and Garner. They play two ex-presidents who both long to be back in the White House, because these days they live quiet lives without any great challenges. Douglas and Kramer (as they are called) meet their match, however, when they get mixed up in a sordid affair involving the sitting president, which the president's advisers want to pin on others, in this case Kramer. Kramer will not put up with the accusations, though, and takes up the fight in the political game, which his old enemy Douglas also wants a part in. Suddenly they both know too much, and after a failed attempt on their lives in a helicopter they have to flee across America without a penny in their pockets. There they meet the ordinary American, the pawn in their game of chess, the people hit by their reforms and tax increases. Douglas and Kramer go on something of an alternative journey of education, and gradually the enmity becomes merely apparent. The film has a dramatic and hugely comic ending in which the White House plays a significant role.