In the Loop

The fate of the world is on the line.
In the Loop
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DVD Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 46 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: November 10, 2009
  • Originally Released: 2009
  • Label: Imports

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 227,014
Rating: 4/5 -- A wicked, mean-spirited comedy filled with nasty people...I haven't laughed this hard in a long time. Full Review
Spectrum Culture
Oct 9, 2019
4 stars out of 5 -- In his uproariously funny motion picture debut, director Armando Iannucci takes both a pairing knife and a wrecking ball to the corridors of UK and US power....It builds a relentless head of comic steam that never subsides.
Box Office
Apr 30, 2009
This alleged satire, which received four-star treatment from other critics, left me with a ho-hum and sorry feeling that I had wasted an evening seeing it. Full Review
The Atlantic
Jan 17, 2018
3.5 stars out of 5 -- The whole cast is stellar. And it proves that smart and funny can exist in the same movie...
Rolling Stone
Jul 9, 2009
James Gandolfini is aces as a red-meat U.S. general... -- Grade: A-
Entertainment Weekly
Jan 15, 2009
Violently verbose and startlingly impolite, with shovelfuls of obscenities, IN THE LOOP is the most savage, biting political satire on the big screen in years.
Los Angeles Times
Jul 24, 2009
Rating: 4/5 -- Shot in fly-on-the-wall style, In The Loop is as expertly and continuously funny as any comedy in years. Full Review
The Age (Australia)
Jan 22, 2010

Product Description:

IN THE LOOP is a fast-paced, lancet-witted ensemble comedy from first-time film director Armando Iannucci, based on his satirical BBC sitcom, THE THICK OF IT. The film tracks the lies, misunderstandings, good and bad intel, and PR blunders that escalate into a full-blown (fictional) crisis in the Middle East over the course of a few days, in a few conversations and meetings, in a few corridors of British and American power. Though played for laughs, the movie demonstrates how the most incidental factors (leaked papers, hastily spoken soundbites) and players (aides, interns, and low-level government officials) can influence the course of history.

The pitch-perfect cast does a great job with Iannucci's script, improvising just enough to maintain the pseudo-documentary feel of the TV show. Even when the action gets loose and rollicking, the tone is tightly controlled satire, and the humor emerges organically from the situations and relationships at hand. Peter Capaldi, reprising his TV role, is hilarious as a foulmouthed, perpetually het-up Director of Communications for the British Prime Minister. Mimi Kennedy gives a droll but heartfelt performance as an antiwar U.S. diplomat and shares some touching and funny scenes with a more subdued than usual James Gandolfini as a U.S. general with surprising views on war. And Tom Hollander quietly steals the show as the hapless British Secretary of State for International Development whose careless remark in an interview sets off the events that catapult him into deeper waters than he has ever been in.

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  • UPC: 065935830832
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