Our Brand Is Crisis

In 2002, Bolivian politician Pedro Castillo (a fictionalized version of presidential candidate Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada) hires an American political consulting firm (based on James Carville's Greenberg Carville Shrum firm) to help him win the 2002 Bolivian presidential election. The firm brings in "Calamity" Jane Bodine (Sandra Bullock) to manage Castillo's fledging campaign. The opposition's top political consultant is her nemesis, fellow American Pat Candy (Billy Bob Thornton). In Bolivia, the situation is tense: Bodine learns that the indigenous people, who are a majority in the country but lack any real political power, are protesting for constitutional reform to get proper representation.