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The movie is based on a terse, bleakly funny 1988 novel by Peter Farrelly, who, with his brother Bobby, wrote and directed Dumb and Dumber (1994) and There's Something About Mary (1998).
A NYT piece paints Clinton as bleakly alone: With Washington evacuated as usual in August (except for the press jackals), only Hillary and Chelsea are around to keep his spirits up.
So even as the brass announces incessantly that "America has the finest fighting force the world has ever known," it responds bleakly to any presidential proposal to actually deploy that force.
Holguín province begins bleakly around the busy capital but improves considerably as you travel north, where the countryside is lusher.
Minghella comes up with a bleakly sincere ending that's the opposite of what this ironic little melodrama needs.