Grassroots has two new faces to join its crowd. DC Pierson from Mystery Team and How I Met your Mother’s Cobie Smulders.
The film is based on Phil Campbell’s book “Zioncheck for President,” a memoir of the 2001 Seattle City Council election. It follows Campbell (Jason Biggs), a recently fired reporter who signs on to run the campaign of his eccentric friend, former pedicab driver and fervent Monorail believer Grant Cogswell (Avatar’s Joel David Moore). Lauren Ambrose is set to play Emily, Phil’s girlfriend. Smulders will play Clair, a Monorail supporter skeptical of Cogswell’s campaign. Cedric the Entertainer will star as the incumbent Councilman running against Cogswell.
The basis sounds an awful lot like Canadian television’s Dan for Mayor where a less than bright but well meaning bartender decides to run for mayor with his best friend who runs the Swifty Copy as his campaign manager.
Apparently the story will revolve mostly around the real life contraversial Monorail plans for the city of Seattle which have been encouraged by the populace, voted for many times and then shut down repeatedly by bureaucratic red tape.
I didn’t care for DC Pierson in Mystery Team (that whole movie was moronic to me) and outside of that and some Derrick Comedy videos online I have little exposure to him. So its hard for me to form a solid opinion. I am indifferent to his existance.
But Cobie Smulders has the least sexy name on the planet, and is the hottest thing on the small screen. I just love her character on How I Met your Mother, and she just has an immense presence.
