Quotes
 Grace Sutherland: [after kissing Monroe] That was no handshake, you son of a bitch. Sally Mannis: I am not stronger than you, I`m a girl.
Handy Harrison: Exactly so it hurts both physically and emotionally.
Sally Mannis: What does it matter what color my underwear are?
Handy Harrison: It`s an unconscious indicator of your subconscious intentions.
Sally Mannis: Are you doing the plumbing for the whole town now?
Handy Harrison: No I came to see you.
Sally Mannis: Through the drain?
Handy Harrison: Hold on, I got you something.
Sally Mannis: Dirt?
Handy Harrison: [Takes the dirt from the ring] It`s dirty but ...
Sally Mannis: Oh.
Handy Harrison: Look I dont know how you feel.
[Sally kisses Handy]
Handy Harrison: Is that a "Yes" kiss?
Sally Mannis: Yes
[Sally kisses Handy again]
Handy Harrison: It`s dirt now, but... It`s really beautiful.
Sally Mannis: It`s beautiful.
Handy Harrison: It`s big and - Thats not just one diamond, theres diamonds on the side
[Sally laughs. Handy places the ring on her finger]
Handy Harrison: It`s diamonds and mud. Oh did I say in the speech - ? I forgot the whole part about how much I love you. I didn`t say it, but - Yes, I didn`t - you know, theres no - I didn`t make a word thing out of it, but you can`t even measure it. It`s like - like, if you take all the sun - You can take all the heat from the sun and you - If you put all of that heat into a love container, you ...
Sally Mannis: [Grabs Handy`s face and playfully slaps his cheek] Got it.
Handy Harrison: You got it?
Sally Mannis: Yes
Handy Harrison: But you said yes anyway. So this is all extra. Like a bonus to it.
Monroe Cole: [Monroe regarding a telephone talk with his embittered and greedy ex-wife who is demanding more of his fortune] Seven million!
Grace Sutherland: It`s a negotiation.
Grace Sutherland: You`ve handled dictators. You`ve handled terrorists.
Monroe Cole: Terrorists were easier, I swear to God!
Handy Harrison: [Sound of flushing of a toilet at Monroe Cole`s house; Handy Harrison emerges out of the bathroom in front of astounded ex-president] I`m all done in here.
Handy Harrison: [Realizing that was double-entendre] I mean, I`m done fixing it.
Handy Harrison: That flashing you heard - that`s work-related, not personal.
Trivia
When the town elders ask President Cole to be mayor, the picture on the wall of the previous mayor is in fact David Chapman, the production designer.
Dustin Hoffman was the original choice for the role of President Monroe Cole. He bowed out several months before filming, leaving Gene Hackman to take over the part.
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# When Sally is being hounded by reporters for the first time about her involvement with the president and one of them asks, "Have you guys had sex yet?" that guy wasn`t an actor, but a personal friend of Ray Romano`s and a stand-up comedian who used to open up for him.
Rod Lurie was offered the chance to direct the project, but passed
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# During the election a newcaster announces that there is 20 minutes left in the election. At that moment there are exactly 20 minutes left in the move.
Mooseport is actually Port Perry, Ontario.
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# Ray Romano`s brother (Richard A. Romano) and dad appear in the bar scene where Romano is laughing at how Sally turned down the president for a kiss. His dad`s the bartender and his brother`s sitting next to him.
The town hall in the film is actually a post office, the newspaper boy is a local student
The scene in which the president walks Sally to her door after their date, was composed of 2 different cameras, one focused on `Maura Tierny` and the other focused on Gene Hackman, shot 2 months apart. They had to stop shooting cause of weather, but you can see in the shots in that scene focused on Maura it`s raining and on Gene, it`s not.
When Sally is being hounded by reporters for the first time about her involvement with the president and one of them asks her if she has had sex yet, that guy wasn`t an actor, but a personal friend of Ray`s and a stand-up comedian who used to open up for him.
`Ray Romano``s brother and dad have cameo appearances in the movie as the scene immediately in the bar scene where Romano is laughing at how Sally turned down the president for a kiss. His dad`s the bartender and his brother`s sitting next to him.
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# The lines "I don`t have cable" when Handy tells his right hand man to stop looking at the two dogs having sex, or "mmmhmm.....yes, i said mmhmmm" uttered by Irma after Handy is brought down to Earth after just having challenged the president to the mayoral race, are a couple of the many ad-libs in the movie added by `Ray Romano` to his own character and others in the script.
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Ray Romano
(as Handy Harrison)
with Patricia Heaton
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