B00G4QEU8W

794043465826

1997

1998-01-09

97

1h 37min

Nominated for 2 Oscars, 2 wins & 23 nominations total

Barry Levinson

Larry Beinhart, Hilary Henkin, David Mamet

Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Anne Heche

Michael De Luca, Robert De Niro, Barry Levinson, Eric McLeod, Claire Rudnick Polstein, Jane Rosenthal, Ezra Swerdlow

Mark Knopfler

Robert Richardson

Stu Linder

Ellen Chenoweth, Debra Zane

Wynn Thomas

Mark Worthington

Robert Greenfield

Rita Ryack

Hazel Catmull, Kathrine Gordon, Ilona Herman, Mark Landon, Peter Montagna, Elaine L. Offers, Daniel C. Striepeke, Michael White, Melissa Yonkey

Blair Daily, Joe Fineman, Carla Fry, Eric McLeod, Bonnie Weis, Laurie Kaye

Ken Arlidge, Amy Sayres, Amy Schmidt, Christopher Swartout

Jose M. Arreguin, Peter Bankins, Tim Donelan, Kirk Essiambre, John French, Joe Louis Garcia, Ildefonso Goris, Tammy High, Bill Kauhane Hoyt, Steve Joyal, Diane Kramer, Scott W. Leslie, Alberto Christiano Lombardo, Jeff Markwith, Jim McDermott, Robert McKelvey, Kathy Meherin, Mark Pallatt, Stephen J. Readmond, Shana Sigmond, Frank Simplico, John Slatsky, Billy Spire, Christopher Tandon, Duke Tomasick, Doug Wuitschick, Carl Catanese, Mary Locatell, Byron K. Lovelace, James R. Shumaker, Brent Smith

Mike Boudry, Lindakay Brown, Steve Cantamessa, Tony Eckert, Ben Gold, J.R. Grubbs, Lora Hirschberg, Tim Holland, Tom Johnson, Doc Kane, Scott La Rue, Mary Helen Leasman, Diane Linn, David Lucarelli, Marilyn McCoppen, Frank Pepe Merel, Al Nelson, Susan Popovic, Charleen Richards, Claire Sanfilippo, Michael Silvers, Greg Steele, Gary Thomas, Dennie Thorpe, Tami Treadwell, Jana Vance, Mary Works, David Abrahamsen, Mark Burton, Lawrence L. Commans, Sean England, Steve Romanko, Kent Sparling, David E. Turner

Greg Dennison, Jim Hanson, Dennis King, Edward T. Reiff Jr., Dale Riggs, Ray L. Wilkerson, Ronald W. Mathews

Mike Sabga, Krystyna Demkowicz

Stephen B. Abrams, Halo Amrani, Ken Arlidge, Nick Arnds, Roger Awad, Michael Brennan, Phillip V. Caruso, Barry Clint, Rick Colosimo, John T. Connor, Amy DeMarte, Joseph Dianda, Shawn Ensign, Jamie Franta, David Gamerman, Phil Gries, Chris Leidholdt, Jim Leidholdt, William Leslie, Fredrick W. Marx III, Roger Meilink, Sean Mennie, Dan Moore, Robert W. Morgenroth, Scot A. Nederman-Paul, Scott Patten, Reinhart Rayteam Peschke, Mark Polischeck, Martin Schaer, Robert J. Studenny, Gregor Tavenner, David Terry, Kelly Uchimura, Jeanne Vienne, Kevin A. Barnes, Renan Galindo, Todd Higgins, Jay Holben, Laela Kilbourn, Ilya Lyudmirsky, Alexandre Naufel, Rob Nelson, David Norris, Peter Shultz, Russell Steen, Daryl Studebaker

David Anthony, Brennan Dufresne, Leigh French, Kimberly Rodgers, Terri Taylor

Nancy McArdle, Marjorie McCown, MJ McGrath, Jose Morales, Maggie Morgan, Marcie Olivi, Hugo Peña, Romeo Pompa, Kelly Porter, Ellen Ryba

Gilbert Carreras, Blair Daily, Mark Daily, Jason Joseph, Ric Keeley, Bob Shugrue Jr., Mark W. Smith, Jay Vinitsky, Thomas M. Harrigan, John F. Lyons, Mike Sowa

Rhonda Baer, Lee J. Bognar, Mauni P. Caves, Geoff Harding, Tim Hillman, Kimberly Lynn, Barron Miller, Kathleen Beall

Chuck Ainlay, Richard Bennett, Roger Blanc, Bob Bowen, Paul Broucek, Jim Cox, Chad Cromwell, Guy Fletcher, Mark Kaufman, Mark Knopfler, Mark Ralston, Dana Sano, Lori Silfen, Joel Sill, Mark Jan Wlodarkiewicz, Glenn Worf

Julie Pitkanen

Steve Boyd, Jerry F. Johnson, George Williams Jr., Greg Bronner, Kenneth A. Owen, Burton L. Warner

Shelley Barbour, Alison Benson, Robin Chambers, Brett Cody, Eric Damore, Dennis Davidson, Brad Davis, Ted Eccles, Hedi El Kholti, Avy Eschenasy, J.J. Geary, Emily Glatter, Madeleine R. Gubbins, Gabriela Gutentag, Holly Hagy, Lana Hale, Terry Ham, Erik Holmberg, Patrick Jager, Scott Keil, Carlos Kotkin, Gary Kurashige, Nancy Lefkowitz, Adam Leichtman, Dirk Q. Long, Cathy Marshall, Ginny Martino, Scott Maziroff, Wild Bill McCrillis, Mindy Miller, Kevin Milligan, Jaime Oria, Jeffrey Craig Owens, Romano Paoletti, Tony Patterson, Steve Peterson, Kait Pickering, John Polce, Steven Pollock, Paul Prokop, Joshua Ravetch, Robert E. Roddy, John Sanchez, Kas Self, Maria Spaeth, Bryan Thomas, Louise Tolan, William Turchyn III, Raymond Vigil, Harriet Voyt, Steve Watson, Bonnie Weis, Ryan Williams, Susan Ahulii, Peter Albert, Chris Beal, Ronald C. Briggs Jr., Dale Dye, Freddie Joe Farnsworth, Dave Freed, Georgette Hayden, Steven Kunes, Keith McNulty, Chris Miller, Tom Sellitti, Harland Williams

Johnny Rockets

Comedy, Drama

Baltimore Pictures, New Line Cinema, Punch Productions

USA

English, Albanian

R

7.1

84380

73

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 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.

$15,000,000 (estimated)

$92,079

$43,061,945

$64,256,513

Black comedy,satire,scandal,bombs,telephone