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      Kevin Spacey stars as Ron Klain, general counsel to Vice President Al Gore's recount committee in the election aftermath in 2000.

      Klain was considered a legal and political prodigy: He graduated from Georgetown, and earned a Magna Cum Laude degree from Harvard Law school in 1987 before clerking for Supreme Court Justice Byron White. By 1994 he was chief of staff and counselor to Attorney General Janet Reno, and Time Magazine named him one of the 50 most promising leaders in America under the age of 40. He became assistant to President Clinton and then chief of staff and counselor to Al Gore in 1995 and was appointed staff director of the senate Democratic leadership committee. In 1999 Klain was named one of the top 20 young lawyers in the nation by the American Bar Associations' Barrister Magazine. Klain was pushed out as Vice President Gore's chief of staff in 1999 by Gore's campaign chief Tony Coelho, who believed him to be too much a Clinton supporter; Bill Daley brought him back in late 1999 after taking over from Coelho.

      Kevin Spacey received Academy Awards® for Best Supporting Actor for "The Usual Suspects" and Best Actor for "American Beauty," which also brought him a Screen Actors Guild Award and BAFTA Award. Spacey won a 1991 Tony Award for Best Supporting Actor for Neil Simon's "Lost in Yonkers." He also starred onstage in "The Iceman Cometh" and "A Moon for the Misbegotten." Spacey's other film projects include "Swimming with Sharks," "L.A. Confidential," "Se7en," "The Negotiator," "Looking for Richard," "K-Pax," "The Shipping News," "The Life of David Gale" and "Superman Returns." His recent projects include "21," "Fred Claus" and the British film "Telstar." Spacey is currently starring in a production of David Mamet's "Speed-the-Plow" at London's Old Vic Theatre Company, where he is artistic director. In November 2002 Spacey and business partner Dana Brunetti launched TriggerStreet.com, a web-based filmmaker and screenwriter community that is an interactive site for the purpose of discovering and showcasing new and unique talent. After just four years, the site has more than 200,000 members worldwide.