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Wag the Dog (New Line Platinum Series) (1997)

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Genre	Drama, Comedy
Format	Multiple Formats, Color, Subtitled, Closed-captioned, Anamorphic, Widescreen, Full Screen, NTSC
Contributor	Robert De Niro, Anne Heche, Dustin Hoffman, Denis Leary, Woody Harrelson, Kirsten Dunst, Michael Belson, Suzanne Cryer, Willie Nelson, Andrea Martin See more
Initial release date	2005-11-15
Language	English, French

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Academy Award winners Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman star in a tale of politics, power and Hollywood so outrageous it could be true! Two weeks before re-election, the President of the United States (Michael Belson) is accused of accosting a girl scout. Before the news reaches the media, his advisors call in a political consultant (De Nireo) specializing in image rescues. What to do? Hire a Hollywood producer (Hoffman) to create a war--distracting public attention from the scandal and rallying Americans to their President in surge of patriotic ferver.

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Not only was Barry Levinson's comedy shot in a relatively fast period of 29 days, the satire of politics and show business feels as if it were made yesterday. There's a fresh spin quite evident here, a nervy satire of a presidential crisis and the people who whitewash the facts. The main players are a mysterious Mr. Fix-It (Robert De Niro), veteran Hollywood producer (Dustin Hoffman), and a White House aide (Anne Heche). Can the president's molesting of a young girl be buried in the two weeks before an election? A war in Albania just might do the trick. In the good old days, the president would just invade. With modern technology, it's even cleaner. The hungry press looks for any lead, convenient misinformation is created by the latest Hollywood fakery ("all developed by the new James Cameron film") creating images and merchandise all instantly packaged. And it must be real, because it's on TV. David Mamet's script never questions the morals or the absolute secrecy needed to pull this thing off. He and director Barry Levinson have enough truth in the story to make you wonder what is real news and what is just promotion the next time you see CNN. Many of the supporting players impact the story with mere presence: Denis Leary as a quote man, Willie Nelson as a songwriter. The three leads are magnificent. With the similarities between history and this film, Wag will forever linked to the Monica Lewinsky saga. This video version contains a new minidocumentary focusing on the parallels of the film with the Bill Clinton scandal, including comments from director Barry Levinson and hosted by newsman Tom Brokaw. --Doug Thomas

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.85:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 0.01 ounces
Item model number ‏ : ‎ 4908852
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, Color, Subtitled, Closed-captioned, Anamorphic, Widescreen, Full Screen, NTSC
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 36 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ November 15, 2005
Actors ‏ : ‎ Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Anne Heche, Denis Leary, Willie Nelson
Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ French
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, Spanish, French
Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 5.1), Unqualified
Studio ‏ : ‎ New Line
ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0780622561
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Sierra gal

Polically funny!

Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2024

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Loved the acting. The movie was very timely during the Clinton Presidency.

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Classic movie

Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2023

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Classic movie but a bit dated. Enjoyed watching for the 5th or so time. Unfortunately these days the corruption is flagrantly out in the open and people don’t seem to care. Sad state of affairs.

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Great artistic commentary on pulling back the Wizards' Political Curtain of WWW (World Wide Wagging)

Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2020

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There is nothing new under the sun, and the types of manufactured crisises to distract from events in the film have happened throughout millennia of history (and in point of fact directly reflect some of the global issues at the time of filming in the 1990s).

Such manufactured events have simply become more sophisticated and easier to orchestrate / produce believable cultural and political illusions as technology advances to better falsely pose as the all knowing Shepard (i.e. God, Higher Power, or in this case more aptly put an Artificial Authority to heed in all things) in order to wag / herd the tail of the dog / sheep and lead the flock of humanity astray from truth.

De Niro does a great job of playing the mystery G man / handler who never reveals his true loyalties or relation to the government and Dustin Hoffman gives a stellar performance on what appears to be a hinting portrayal of Hollywood psyche implantation / modification producers akin to Stanley Kubrick.

This is very much more pertinent in this day in age regarding the War on Drugs, Terrorism, and Dis-ease like Covid 19. If you ever wanted a peak behind the political world curtain with eyes wide open, this a great film to get an idea on how some of the middle man NWO operations function on a governmental level towards creating global perceptions, judgements and responses to fake / manufactured crisises (also known in today's jargon as false flag operations).

Enjoy and fear not, those of you who see this film and/or read this review with deep concern and understanding, for the light of the Holy Spirit is with you and there is nothing in the world's playbook of fear which can deprive you of your most precious divine gift. Love and blessings be with you!

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I find it truly amazing that whenever Hollywood paints an accurate picture of our political climate, or tries to alert us to our own ignorance, we just don't seem to get it, no matter how many times they try hitting us over the head with the obvious. It becomes evident that ''anti-Red'' scaremonger Joseph McCarthy really didn't need to do much of anything -- he could have just sat back and sipped on his martini, because, in the end, the American public doesn't take political messages in Hollywood movies seriously anyway. Case in point: ''Wag The Dog.''
In a blatant attempt prove to his audience that any kind of media spin desired can be created and executed to benefit any and every political agenda imaginable (as though trying to prepare us ahead of time for the real possibility of an illegal overthrow of "representative democracy" in America, such as occured with the installation of President 'Un-Elect' George Walker Bush), David Mamet shows `We, the People' just how gullible and how easily manipulated we are by "official looking" and "official sounding" media presentations, ESPECIALLY when "patriotic" themes are involved.
Just like G.W. Bush and his associate Republican thugs cooked up a non-existent "War On Terror" to keep the public's mind off of the President's misdeeds and political ineptness, so too do the advisors and insiders of Mamet's fictitious administration of an unnamed President cook up a non-existent "War" against a "terrorist nation" (arbitrarily, Albania -- an insignificant dirt-poor country, just like Afghanistan) in order to keep the public's mind off of the President's alleged misconduct with a "Firefly Girl" (a thinly veiled parallel reference to the sexual misconduct of the last duly elected President in the nation, William Jefferson Clinton).
The timing could not have possibly been worse for a scandal to erupt around Mamet's "President," since it is during a point in the presidency where the Commander in Chief is actively seeking re-election. So a Hollywood producer (Dustin Hoffman) has been called in to brainwash and mislead the public with a number of staged manipulative media events all wrapped neatly in the banner of patriotic jingoism. As one of the President's advisers, played by Robert DeNiro, states: "It's a pageant!"
Mamet shows us how easily we can get swept up in jingoism to such an extent that we forget to ask the truly important questions and just sit back on our big fat collectives and 'let someone else do the hard thinking for us.' It's how dictatorships are born -- and to quote the words of George W. Bush VERBATIM, as spoken on December 18, 2000, just less than a week after he was "appointed" President by the Supreme Court:
''If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier... just so long as I'm the dictator.''

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Mike G.

Gotta watch it!

Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2023

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Makes you really think about the news these days. Is it all a show?? How would we actually know! Gotta question everything!

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Anthony McCracken

A movie for everyone, seriously

Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2022

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Do you distrust the media? This movie is for you. Do you ever wonder why anyone would possibly distrust the media? This movie is also for you. It’s a timeless satire that doesn’t draw political lines or accuse one side or the other of manipulating the media because they know that would severely dilute the point: that the media in general is corrupt. I don’t see the film as taking the bleakest look, just a comical way of showing the importance of thinking for yourself. To not fully trust the media in all of its forms, but to think as you absorb. Hoffman and Deniro give incredible performances, the writing and directing are on point to keep the pacing up and show that the momentum of individuals caught up in a team objective of saving a presidents’ re-election campaign is addictive to watch, even when it’s hilariously unsettling.

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Heather H.

Kind of slow moving

Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2023

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I find this a unique film but I don’t care much about the characters and the plot isn’t that exciting. It’s a lot of dialogue and not much character arc.

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Charlotte MacMane

More truth

Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2023

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Awesome movie shows truth of what our government is really up to

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デ・ニーロとホフマン

Reviewed in Japan on December 25, 2023

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この二人の共演なら、面白くないはずはありません。
二人の『胡散臭さ』は絶品です．
アメリカって、やっぱり怖い国ですね。

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Birgitte L Storm

Producto no utilizable en Europa - es Region 1 y no lo dicen

Reviewed in Spain on January 16, 2016

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Esta compra fue una decepción ya que el DVD resultó ser para USA (Region 1) y no lo dicen en la descripción del producto. Es lamentable que lo vendan en Amazon España (encima poniendo Reino Unido en el título, lo cual hace pensar que es para la Region 2 (Europa)) y que luego resulta ser para el sistema americano. Como mínimo habría que indicarlo.

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Dorita

Excelente

Reviewed in Mexico on June 12, 2020

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Llegó perfecto, rápido y se ve estupenda, una película de mis favorita

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marco

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Reviewed in Italy on January 7, 2016

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Ben fatto, realistico.
anche le musiche non son male.
e gli attori son veramente fenomenali..
e poi il film in se fa riflettere...

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Alt aber gut

Reviewed in Germany on January 26, 2024

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Zeigt wie leicht Medien manipulierbar sind und Menschen beeinflussen.
Hat an Aktualität nichts eingebüßt

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