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Wag the Dog
Comedy, Drama
During the final weeks of a presidential race, the President is accused of sexual misconduct. To distract the public until the election, the President's adviser hires a Hollywood producer to help him stage a fake war.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy sharp political satire about propaganda, image-making, and the cynical machinery behind public opinion.
- Tone
- satirical, darkly comic, cerebral
- Payoff
- amusement, unease
- Pacing
- brisk
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- political manipulation, media spectacle, public distraction, institutional cynicism, manufactured reality
- Setting
- late twentieth-century election season, political offices and fabricated media environments
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