Wag the Dog
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- Synopsis
- In a 29-day shoot, Barry Levinson filmed this $15 million political and media satire, adapted by Hilary Henkin and David Mamet from Larry Beinhart's novel, American Hero....
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- Starring
- Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Anne Heche, Woody Harrelson, Denis Leary
- Director(s)
- Barry Levinson
- Distributor(s)
- New Line
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 100 min.
Critic Reviews
The movie is a satire that contains just enough realistic ballast to be teasingly plausible; like "Dr. Strangelove," it makes you laugh, and then it makes you wonder.Read the full review
If the result is often as glib as the targets it's satirizing, it's also driven by a cruelly distilled joy. Wag the Dog is an ode to the thrill of deception, a thrill embodied in Hoffman's inspired performance.Read the full review
A gloriously cynical black comedy that functions as 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. And it has a great deal of fun doing it.Read the full review
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