The film features Dean, Al Franken, Michael Moore, Ted Kennedy, Walter Mondale, Hillary Clinton, Alexandra Pelosi, and many others.
Director Heath Eiden said that he conceived of the project after watching the artist who painted Dean's gubernatorial portrait, which depicted the then-governor sitting in a canoe.
[1] The film was later renamed Dean and Me: Lessons From an American Primary.
During the 2016 Democratic presidential primary, when fellow Vermonter Bernie Sanders was a candidate, Eiden revisited Dean and Me and said that the film shows that "Bernie Sanders and team, win or lose, learned from Dean's movement that giving up is not an option and ideas never die while some campaigns do.".
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