Review: 'Swing Vote'

In this tale of an improbably key voter, Kevin Costner amiably reasserts his chosen corner of movie stardom. But the vaguely Capra-esque story doesn't have much to say. > A Frank Capra throwback for an era of diminished expectations, the amiable "Swing Vote" casts Kevin Costner as an unemployed egg processing plant worker who must decide the fate of the state of the union. The hopes and ideals of the apathetic American citizenry are pinned on this hard-drinking resident of Texico, N.M., whose wife ran out on him to pursue a singing career, and whose 12-year-old daughter, played -- and very well -- by Madeline Carroll, has too long been the caretaker in their coexistence. (link)