Wag the Dog (1997)

5.4
/ 10
5 User Ratings
1h 37m
Running Time

December 25, 1997
Release Date

Wag the Dog (1997)

5.4
/ 10
5 User Ratings
1h 37m
Running Time

December 25, 1997
Release Date

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Plot.

During the final weeks of a presidential race, the President is accused of sexual misconduct. To distract the public until the election, the President's adviser hires a Hollywood producer to help him stage a fake war.

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This Movie Is About.

movie business · 
government · 
rape · 
politics · 
soldier · 
washington d.c. · 
conspiracy · 
cia · 
gulf war · 
election campaign · 
war veteran · 
usa president · 
albania · 
senator · 
sex scandal · 
staging · 
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Cast & Crew.

Details.

Release Date
December 25, 1997

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 37m

Content Rating
R

Budget
$15,000,000

Box Office
$64,256,513

Genres

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Wag the Dog is a 1997 American political satire black comedy film produced and directed by Barry Levinson and starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro. The film centers on a spin doctor and a Hollywood producer who fabricate a war in Albania to distract voters from a presidential sex scandal. The screenplay by Hilary Henkin and David Mamet was loosely adapted from Larry Beinhart's 1993 novel, American Hero.

Wag the Dog was released one month before the outbreak of the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal and the subsequent bombing of the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Sudan by the Clinton administration in August 1998, which prompted the media to draw comparisons between the film and reality. The comparison was also made in December 1998 when the administration initiated a bombing campaign of Iraq during Clinton's impeachment trial over the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal. It was made again in the spring of 1999 when the administration intervened in the Kosovo War and initiated a bombing campaign against Yugoslavia, which coincidentally, (see the plot, below), bordered Albania and contained ethnic Albanians. The film grossed $64.3 million on a $15 million budget and was well received by critics, who praised the direction, performances, themes, and humor. Hoffman received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance and screenwriters David Mamet and Hilary Henkin were both nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay.

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