Wag the Dog (1998) - Movie Details
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| Release Date: | January 9, 1998 |
| Genre: | Comedy, Crime |
| Director: | Barry Levinson |
| Writer: | David Mamet, Hilary Henkin, Larry Beinhart |
| Cast: | Woody Harrelson, Michael Belson, Suzanne Cryer, Jason Cottle, David Koechner, John Michael Higgins, Suzie Plakson, Robert De Niro, Anne Heche, Denis Leary, Willie Nelson, Andrea Martin, Kirsten Dunst, William H. Macy, Craig T. Nelson, Dustin Hoffman |
| Studio: | New Line Cinema |
| Running Time: | 96 minutes |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated R for language. |
With the election in two weeks, a woman comes forth proclaiming that the President made sexual advances on her. In what could be crippling to his campaign, the President needs something to draw the people's attention away from the scandal. Like a war.
The Presidential spin doctor Conrad Brean immediately came up with a plan: to make a war. Perhaps Albania gained position of nuclear weapons... Or terrorists are attacking Americans...
Either way, he needs...
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Movie Review
Before it happened in real life, it happened in Wag the Dog. Hopefully, though, Wag the Dog was a little more farfetched than the Clinton sex scandal. Wag the Dog is crazy: they manage to elude the public, news media, and even the CIA and fake a war in Albania. They create a war hero and then kill him off. And they manage to keep dozens of people from telling the truth. Full movie review »
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