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- Audio Commentary
- Featurette: "From Washington To Hollywood And Back"
- Essay: "The Line Between Truth And Fiction"
- Theatrical Trailer
- Cast/Crew Biographies & Filmographies
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 45 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 1, 1998
- Originally Released: 1997
- Label: New Line Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Dustin Hoffman & Robert De Niro | |
Performer: | Anne Heche, Denis Leary, Willie Nelson, Andrea Martin, Kirsten Dunst, William H. Macy, Craig T. Nelson, Suzie Plakson, John Michael Higgins, Woody Harrelson, Michael Belson, Suzanne Cryer, Jason Cottle, David Koechner, Harland Williams, Sean Masterson, Bernard Hocke & Pops Staples | |
Directed by | Barry Levinson | |
Edited by | Stu Linder | |
Screenwriting by | Hilary Henkin & David Mamet | |
Composition by | Mark Knopfler | |
Story by | Larry Beinhart | |
Cameo: | Merle Haggard, James Belushi & Jay Leno | |
Produced by | Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro & Barry Levinson | |
Director of Photography: | Robert Richardson |
Entertainment Reviews:
Hilary Henkin and David Mamet's script is gleefully hyperbolic without ever straying from its political target.
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Chicago Reader
Lazily assembled by director Levinson, it slides into a series of soft, extended skits on engineering a media war, not helped by several badly handled leaps in the story.
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Time Out
The pacing is crisp, the dialogue quippy and fast, the tone arch but energetic.
Variety
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.
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Los Angeles Times
...As scarily plausible as it is swift, hilarious and impossible to resist....Splendidly acted, written with biting acuity...and directed in discreetly sidesplitting fashion...
New York Times
'Wag the Dog,' a movie that's fun to see more than once, comes across as a bitingly funny satire of politics, the media and show business.
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Smart political satire from director Barry Levinson.
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Film4
Description by OLDIES.com:
A comedy about truth, justice and other special effects...
When the President is caught in a sex scandal less than 2 weeks before the election, White House spinmaster Conrad Brean (Robert De Niro) creates a phony war with the help of Hollywood producer Stanley Motss (Dustin Hoffman). From acclaimed director Barry Levinson and writers Hilary Henkin and David Mamet comes this biting look at American politics and its relationship with the media that we have all come to embrace.
When the President is caught in a sex scandal less than 2 weeks before the election, White House spinmaster Conrad Brean (Robert De Niro) creates a phony war with the help of Hollywood producer Stanley Motss (Dustin Hoffman). From acclaimed director Barry Levinson and writers Hilary Henkin and David Mamet comes this biting look at American politics and its relationship with the media that we have all come to embrace.
Product Description:
When a Firefly Girl accuses the president of sexual misconduct in the Oval Office less than two weeks before the upcoming election, White House official Winifred Ames (Anne Heche) is told to bring in Conrad Bream (Robert De Niro) to fix the situation and save the president's chances for reelection. This mysterious "fixer" fabricates a conflict with Albania in an effort to detract attention from the sex scandal, bringing in legendary Hollywood producer Stanley Motss (Dustin Hoffman) to "produce" the war. When the CIA foils the initial plot, the creative team turns to a new story line, creating the saga of a U.S. soldier left behind enemy lines whom the president vows to find and return to American soil. Directed by Barry Levinson (DINER, RAIN MAN) and loosely based on Larry Beinhart's novel AMERICAN HERO, this merging of Hollywood and politics is both thought provoking and comical. The inspired casting of Hoffman as the self-absorbed producer and De Niro as the mysterious spin doctor is bolstered by a superb supporting cast that includes Denis Leary and Andrea Martin.
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