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Wag the Dog (1998)

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Release Date: January 9, 1998
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Running Time: 96 minutes
MPAA Rating: Rated R for language.
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

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 Read more

Movie Review

Grade: B 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. Read the full movie review

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