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Wag The Dog
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Just a few days before the last president election, a sex scandal happens to an important candidate - the Washinton D.C spin-doctor. He tries his best to take citizen's attention away from that scandal by making up a imaginary war with Albania, hoping the media will concentrate on this instead. He hires a Hollywood producer to create a fake context of war
Just a few days before the last president election, a sex scandal happens to an important candidate - the Washinton D.C spin-doctor. He tries his best to take citizen's attention away from that scandal by making up a imaginary war with Albania, hoping the media will concentrate on this instead. He hires a Hollywood producer to create a fake context of war
Actors:
Anthony Holiday,
Cliff B. Howard,
Melissa Gardner,
Jay Leno,
Harland Williams,
Jenna Byrne,
Sean Masterson
Anthony Holiday
Cliff B. Howard
Melissa Gardner
Jay Leno
28 April 1950, New Rochelle, New York, USA
Harland Williams
14 November 1962, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jenna Byrne
15 October 1970, New York City, New York, USA
Sean Masterson
Country:
United States
Keywords:
#Anne Heche #Barry Levinson #Denis Leary #Dustin Hoffman #Robert De Niro #Wag the Dog #William H. Macy
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March 29, 2009
Twisty and flat-out hilarious.
Common Sense Media
December 18, 2010
Entertaining, creepily resonant political comedy.
April 12, 2002
Amusing as it is, Wag The Dog does what it purports to sat irize -- the bark is real but the teeth aren't.
July 24, 2007
Feels tossed-off and casual in the best way.
February 14, 2001
A wicked smart satire on the interlocking worlds of politics and show business, Wag the Dog confirms every awful thought you've ever had about media manipulation and the gullibility of the American public.
September 25, 2011
'Wag the Dog,' a movie that's fun to see more than once, comes across as a bitingly funny satire of politics, the media and show business.
March 30, 2009
Hilary Henkin and David Mamet's script is gleefully hyperbolic without ever straying from its political target.
March 30, 2009
Smart political satire from director Barry Levinson.
Variety
February 14, 2001
The pacing is crisp, the dialogue quippy and fast, the tone arch but energetic.
March 30, 2009
Anyone who would be inherently interested in this kind of sendup is unlikely to be surprised by anything in this film -- overall it feels like a trifle, if an entertaining one.
January 26, 2006
Lazily assembled by director Levinson, it slides into a series of soft, extended skits on engineering a media war, not helped by several badly handled leaps in the story.
January 01, 2000
The movie is intelligent, but it's also a lot of fun.