Roseanne for President!

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Twenty-five years after Roseanne Barrs 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 Roseannes thoughts on these subjectsand 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 Roseannes private world, while juxtaposing her current influence as a politician with her role as a comedy leader in the ’90s.

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Susan Wloszczyna
The New York Times
Andy Webster
Variety
Ben Kenigsberg