If I play Dave, will you help me to follow the State money trail?

DO you remember Dave? Dave was an ordinary guy, a good citizen. He was plucked from obscurity because of his uncanny resemblance to the president of the United States.

If I play Dave, will you help me to follow the State money trail?

It was Dave’s misfortune that the president needed a double. And then, through the sort of twist of fate that can only happen in the movies, the real president has a massive stroke, his henchmen decide that it’s in the national interest that no-one should find out, and Dave suddenly finds himself having to act as president of his country.

Dave was a movie, of course. The actor Kevin Kline played both the ordinary citizen, thrust into hugely onerous responsibility, and the president, and played both parts brilliantly.

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