Here's a moral dilemma for you. You are a politician who has run a campaign based on integrity, and consideration for the rights of the people and you end up winning the election. But in the transition period while you are waiting to take office someone approaches you and tells you that the only reason you won was because of a computer glitch that caused you to be declared winner in spite of not having the most votes.

What do you do? You believe the person who tells you this information even though no one else does. The company she used to work for has set her up to look like a drug addict and seriously unhinged so in the event that she does go public no one will believe her, but you know she is telling the truth. What do you do?

This is the quandary that Barry Levinson has created for Robin Williams' character in the  movie Man Of The Year, recently released on DVD. Mr. Williams plays a political comic with his own television show along the lines of many today, but is completely non-partisan. He thinks both the Republican and the Democratic parties are a bit of a joke and spends his shows decrying their idiocy.

Almost as a whim he decides to run for office and goes on the campaign trail as an independent. At first he plays it straight talking about the issues, but finally when he is invited to participate in the debate he breaks down and reverts to comedic form. For the rest of the campaign he runs as a comic – we get flashes of his speeches and they are classic Robin Williams political riffs.

The filmmakers do a credible job of making it seem like he has a chance to actually win the election judging by the reactions audiences have to him around the country. So on the first Tuesday in November when the results start rolling in and he is declared President at 1:30 am the following morning you have no trouble believing in the result.

Laura Linney plays a computer programmer who works for a huge software company who have created a fail safe program for counting and collecting ballots. Voters simply press the X on the screen next to the name of the person or the proposition that they support and their vote is recorded and tabulated.

But one night Linney's character is running one final check when she discovers a horrible glitch – if your name has double letters in it the computer will somehow select you as the winner no matter how many or how few votes you received. Of course if your name has double A in it you will beat someone who has double K, and so on.