It's not an overtly political movie, but it certainly has a perspective.

Every other political movie, like Syriana, is going away from the main subject matter.

It's hard to think of an American political movie that hasn't been affected by it.

Is it really a political movie?

I'm not interested in making a topical, political movie but I am interested in making a film that engages people.

The political movie has seriously divided critics, but the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was high on "Vice" and handed it a leading six nominations.

They previously worked together on HBO's 2008 political movie "Recount," which followed the nail-biting conclusion to the 2000 presidential race.

This week Miles Buckingham looks at a couple of political movies, Bob Roberts and Rats in the Ranks.