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Genres:
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Comedy /
Drama /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Barry Levinson
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Actors:
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Suzie Plakson,
Dustin Hoffman,
Robert De Niro,
Anne Heche,
Denis Leary,
Willie Nelson,
Andrea Martin,
Kirsten Dunst,
William H. Macy,
John Michael Higgins
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Duration:
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97 min.
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Rating:
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(7/10)121.5
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Plot Summary:
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After being caught in a immoral employment days before the election, the president does not seem to enjoy much of a conceivably of being re-elected. United of his advisers contacts a prime Hollywood maker in required to assembly a war in Albania that the president can heroically the last straw, all from top to bottom better media.
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Wag the Dog
Smart factional satire from administrator Barry Levinson (Diner, Drizzle Man), with writers David Mamet and Hilary Henkin doing a excellent occupation of adapting Larry Beinhart's unconventional 'American Hero' payment the small screen. Headline info was made when this comical tale of a US President's aids spinning the understanding of a war in Eastern Europe to distract from his sexual misdeeds dove-tailed (coincidentally) with Bill Clinton's hostile escapades in the wake of the Monica Lewinski scandal. Hoffman is suitably grovelling as Stanley Motss, the movie producer called in to 'engender' the electioneer, while De Niro plays tweedy but deceitful stretch out doctor Conrad Brean. Willie Nelson gets top marks for his rendition of the sup...
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