Roseanne for President!
World Premiere

Roseanne for President!

Spotlight
| USA | 97 MINUTES
Comedy, Documentary
Twenty-five years after Roseanne Barr’s groundbreaking number-one sitcom, Roseanne for President tells the tale of her 2012 grassroots campaign for President of the United States. While Roseanne may have revolutionized the way Americans talked about family, class, race, gender, and gay rights, this campaign trail adventure is a personal account of Roseanne’s thoughts on these subjects—and others, as we have never heard them before. What seems at first like a political profile quickly becomes a humorous and sentimental picture of an icon. This surprising journey uncovers raw and revealing moments from Roseanne’s private world, while juxtaposing her current influence as a politician with her role as a comedy leader in the '90s.

Featuring Michael Moore, Sandra Bernhard, and Rosie O’Donnell, as well as Roseanne’s mother and family members, this doc is a closer look at a public figure that goes far beyond what we think we already know.

—Deborah Rudolph

Cast & Credits
Directed by
Eric Weinrib
Eric Weinrib is an award-winning director/producer who has collaborated with filmmaker Michael Moore for over a decade. Titles include Fahrenheit 9/11 and Capitalism: A Love Story, among others. Eric was also a staff writer on Comedy Central’s Strangers with Candy.
Director
Eric Weinrib
Producer
Eric Weinrib, James Moore
Editor
Tyler H. Walk, Melanie Vi Levy
Cinematographer
Jayme Roy
Executive Producer
Roseanne Barr
Cast
Roseanne Barr, Farheen Hakeem, Michael Moore, Rosie O'Donnell, Sandra Bernhard, Tom Smothers

Contacts
Print Source
Eric Weinrib
Brooklyn, 11211
Phone: 646 423 8383
ericweinrib@gmail.com
International Sales Contact
Jay Cohen
The Gersh Agency, Inc.
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
Phone: 310 274 6611
JCohen@gersh.com
Press Contact
Monica Delamater
Falco Ink
New York, NY 10016
Phone: 212 445 7100
monicadelamater@falcoink.com
US Sales Contact
Jay Cohen
The Gersh Agency, Inc.
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
Phone: 310 274 6611
JCohen@gersh.com
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