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10/18/08
Wag the Dog (1997)
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Reviews Counted: 68
Fresh: 57
Rotten:11
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Consensus: Smart, well-acted, and uncomfortably prescient political satire from director Barry Levinson and and all-star cast.
Runtime: 2 hrs 25 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Anne Heche, Denis Leary
Director: Barry Levinson
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Reviews for Wag the Dog
I doubt it will age as well as Network, but it is close to that realm of brilliance.
10/16/06
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.
01/26/06
Beyond a couple of hilarious zingers, its impact feels smug and minor.
12/06/05
Brilliantly scripted and acted to the point where even Barry Levinson's typically uninspired direction doesn't matter.
09/17/05
Levinson has created a surprising quickie that satirically strikes out at our political system, the media (easy target) and the whole business of image versus reality.
04/09/05
It is fun when people with Hollywood clout decide to do something as fast and loose as this...
01/29/05
It's half a brilliant political satire, half a wacky outrageous comedy of errors. The first half works, the second half doesn't.
01/15/05
A film that, for every scene of genuine hilarity, all too often just lies there smirking at itself about how darn clever it is.
12/18/04
A hilarious, acerbic political satire of a kind rarely seen on American screens.
10/15/02
O filme mostra um grupo de pessoas atuando para conseguir alcançar um objetivo sem que nenhuma barreira os impeça. E se não há conflito, qual é a motivação do espectador?
05/31/02
Amusing as it is, Wag The Dog does what it purports to sat irize -- the bark is real but the teeth aren't.
04/12/02
Top Critic Explores how the deliberate creation of unreality has become one of the most salient aspects of life in our times.
03/01/02
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October 27, 2005:
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October 06, 2005:
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