Wag the Dog | | Cast : | Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Anne Heche | | Director : | Barry Levinson | | Studio : | New Line Home Entertainment | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | January 09, 1998 | | DVD Released Date : | September 02, 2003 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
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| Rating |  | | Date | August 02, 2005 | | Summary | Political satire at its best its so real that it almost became true | Content
 | If you liked this movie, you will like the movie Primary Colors. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 15, 2005 | | Summary | Deny! Deny! Deny!... | Content
| It's only 11 days before the presidential election. All is well until- OOPSY DAISY!! The president himself rapes a visiting firefly girl, in the whitehouse! Enter Anne Heche as the press secretary and Robert De Niro as Conrad Brean, spin-god and clean-up man extraordiaire. Together, they must find a way to divert the public's attention until after the election. They enlist the help of hollywood producer Stanley Motss (Dustin Hoffman) in order to fabricate something big in a hurry. Can they get the current scandal wiped from the front pages of the papers in time? Yes, of course they can! With the help of a small army of actors, singers, advertising types, etc., Motss delivers a war with Albania! Why? Because they have "the bomb"! Not only that, but it's a suitcase bomb, and it's already in Canada, waiting to cross the border and destroy us! Watch as theme songs are concocted to fit the pre-arranged outcome! See slogans and catch-phrases on t-shirts and TV screens! Wonder at the gung-ho spirit of the manipulated masses as they participate in the greatest scam ever conceived! I love WAG THE DOG. It is a perfectly executed lampoon of all things political / commercial. This is the cynic's dream and the paranoid conspiracy theorist's nightmare! There are no good guys in this movie. Everyone is either dirty or totally oblivious. The words "republican" or "democrat" are never mentioned (the president's face is never shown), after all, party affiliation is irrelevant when we're all just an audience for the great charade. WTD is a movie that everyone should see at least twice. Once for the acidic humor, then again for the lurking truth behind it! Anne Heche's verbal assault on Hoffman's character (right after the plane crash) is priceless! Highly recommended... |
| Rating | | | Date | June 13, 2005 | | Summary | Political Satire at its Best | Content
| With an all-star cast including Oscar winners Robert DeNiro, Dustin Hoffman (who actually recieved a best actor nomination for this movie, and William H. Macy, and Anne Heche, a younger Kirsten Dunst, Woody Harrelson, and Willie Nelson, Wag the Dog is one of the best films of the 1990s.
De Niro takes the role of presidential spin doctor Conrad Breen, sent into action after the president is trapped in a sticky situation. His job, to take the media's attention off of the president and help him gain support only days before the election.
Breen must now come up with something drastic if he is to divert attention from the president, and with the help of Hollywood producer Stanley Motss (Hoffman) will go so far as to create a state of national panic.
This film combines its suberb acting with an unbeatable script(nominated for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar) and challenges, through satire, the way that election campaigns are run. A movie truly built to last, Wag the Dog is a movie that will send its message through for generations to come. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 13, 2005 | | Summary | Behind the News | Content
| This movie makes you wonder what really goes on behind all the political media hype. I saw this shortly before the 'conflict' in Kosovo. That conflict was near election time, and I felt compelled to actually check a map to see if there was such a place.
I also thought it curious that I rarely saw this movie in rental stores or for sale even as a VHS. Maybe it made the government and media people nervous. |
| Rating | | | Date | April 29, 2005 | | Summary | Wag the Dog | Content
| I loved it. If you like black comedy this is the film for you. I rate it all the way up there with Dr. Strangelove and The Hospital. |
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