Wag the Dog [VHS]
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Movies/TV › Feature Film Comedy
UPC: 794043464232 / Publisher: New Line Studios, May 1998
When the president is caught in a sex scandal less than 2 weeks before the election, the White House sends for "Mr. Fix-it." Washington spinmaster Conrad Brean needs a war to distract the public's attention and calls on Hollywood's top producer to createit.
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David Mamet's cynical black comedy imagines a president about to be undone by a brewing sex scandal. To divert the public's attention, unflappable political strategist Conrad Brean (Robert De Niro), concocts a military crisis with Albania, and recruits Hollywood producer Stanley Motss (Dustin Hoffman in his Oscar-nominated performance) to produce this "pageant."
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