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Wag the Dog - Official Trailer (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Directed by Barry Levinson
Produced by Barry Levinson, Robert De Niro
Screenplay by Hilary Henkin, David Mamet
Based on American Hero by Larry Beinhart
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Anne Heche, Denis Leary, Willie Nelson, Andrea Martin, Kirsten Dunst
Music by Mark Knopfler
Cinematography by Robert Richardson
Edited by Stu Linder
Production company: Baltimore Pictures, TriBeCa Productions
Distributed by New Line Cinema
Release date: December 25, 1997 (USA)
Running time: 97 minutes
Country: United States of America
Language: English
Wag the Dog is a 1997 black comedy film where a spin doctor and a Hollywood producer fabricate a war to distract voters from a presidential sex scandal. It was produced and directed by Barry Levinson, and starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro. The screenplay by Hilary Henkin and David Mamet was loosely adapted from Larry Beinhart's novel American Hero.
Wag the Dog was released one month before the outbreak of the Lewinsky scandal and the subsequent bombing of the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Sudan by the Clinton administration, which prompted the media to draw comparisons between the film and reality.
Shortly before an election, a spin-doctor and a Hollywood producer join efforts to fabricate a war in order to cover up a Presidential sex scandal.