UK
2009/35mm/109mins
FRIDAY 30 OCTOBER 6.30 pm – Dendy
FRIDAY 6 NOVEMBER 6.30 pm – Dendy
Satire has never been this searingly astute and funny in a story where Washington and Westminster are desperately trying to control the media spin on a possible Middle-east war.
The US President and UK Prime Minister fancy a war, but not everyone agrees. When bumbling British Secretary of State for International Development, Simon Foster accidentally backs military action, he suddenly finds he has a lot of friends in Washington but is in deep trouble with the Prime Minister’s spin-doctor Malcolm Tucker. With a brilliantly clever and foul-mouthed script in his hands, director Armando Iannucci goes for both the jugular and the funny bone.
“By far the funniest big-screen satire in recent memory” A.O.Scott, New York Times
“As if Jane Austen and Monty Python collaborated on an episode of The West Wing” Mary Ann Johanson, Flick Filosopher
“Politically astute, hilarious and terrifyingly real.” Nev Pierce, Empire Magazine
Director Armando Iannucci Producers Kevin Loader, Adam Tandy Script Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell Cast Peter Capaldi, Tom Hollander, Gina McKee, James Gandolfini Print Source Madman Australia
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That was hilarious!!!
I loved the communications guy – I haven’t heard so many creative ways of insulting people in a long time.