Factual error: At the Spanish restaurant, the TV newsletter broadcasts a senator speaking, and the title "Sénador" below. The word has no accent mark.
Wag The Dog (1997)
Plot summary
Directed by: Barry Levinson
Starring: Robert De Niro, Woody Harrelson, Dustin Hoffman, Denis Leary, Anne Heche
After being caught in a scandalous situation days before the election, the president does not seem to have much of a chance of being re-elected. One of his advisors (De Niro) contacts a top Hollywood producer (Hoffman) in order to manufacture a war in Albania that the president can heroically end, all through mass media.
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Stanley Motss: This is politics at its finest.
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