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| ACTORS: | Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Anne Heche |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Barry Levinson |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 09 January, 1998 |
| MANUFACTURER: | New Line Home Entertainment |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-comedy |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 794043465826 |
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Customer Reviews of Wag the Dog (New Line Platinum Series)
Probably not the President's favorite movie, but it's mine! As a Brit living in the USA I have noticed a very welcome trend in life Stateside, you's all starting to take yourself less seriously!. In a country which takes a somewhat harsh view of showing a nipple on NBC, this film is nothing less than an exhilarating ( and apposite) joy!.
Trying to keep the Presidents name off the front page when he's been found to be groping a 13 year old just two weeks before an election demands the services of an extraordinary guy ( Robert de Niro). The answer?, war with Albania! ( does this give you folks a sense of deja vu?)
Not a real war of course, a virtual, televisual war, designed to show the heroic qualities of the American Nation, The American Army ( listen for the hymn of praise to the "men of the 303") and, not least, the American President.
A plot that, though labrynthine, never really loses it's way, and the combined efforts of everybody from De Niro and Dustin Hoffman to Willie Nelson ( yep!, Willie Nelson!) make this film the equivalent of the best-seller you can't put down, We cannot buy it in the UK, I suspect that Prime Minister feels that he owes enough to Bill to at least stop us getting our hands on THIS!!.
Pity though, it's the best film of 1998 by a country mile.
It could have happened!
Wag the Dog is a clever film about how the media and some government insiders manufacture a war to divert the American public from the latest presidential scandal, where he is with a schoolgirl in a beret. Ironically, this movie came out in late 1997 just when the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal -- complete with beret --- broke out and Clinton suddenly started proposing a war with Iraq.
The movie is funny but also unnerving as the media insiders (Anne Heche, Robert de Niro, etc) produce everything from a fake news clip (complete with a bratty Kirsten Dunst as a child actress demanding that she can put this top-secret project on her acting resume) to a war hero (a shell-shocked substance-abusing Woody Harrelson) -- all from the war that never was.
Funny because it is well-written and well-acted, unnerving because you are never really sure how much is a farce and how much is truth. It all seems a bit real and each step in the grand cover-up snowballs so smoothly into the next that it can really throw you off![.]
This movie was funnier BEFORE we started engineering wars...
Oh dear.
Originaly a parody of the Lewinsky "situation," this movie has grown even more timely since its release. We are currently embroiled in a fake war that this movie definately saw coming: from manufactured heros that don't quite work out (whatever happened to Jessica Lynch anyways?) to theme songs ("Let the Eagle Soar," anyone?) to photo-op battles (the pulling down of Saddam's statue, with the American tanks off-camera so that it looked like it was being done by a mob of Iraqis).
This is a very funny parody that is sometimes subtle, sometimes abrasive, but always hits its target dead on: whether it is the greasy advisors, the complacent news media, or the easily duped American public. Everyone should give it a watch before the next presidential election.