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• 1997
• US
• 97 min
• 15

• Directed by: Barry Levinson
• Cast: Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Anne Heche.

A spin doctor cooks up a fictitious war to help a US President through a tricky and scandal-filled re-election campaign - all done-and-dusted well before Clinton's Monica Lewinsky scandal surfaced. But outside its frighteningly impeccable timing, this Mamet-scripted satire comes in heavy handed form. As one 'problem' after another is encountered and solved, the cool, ironic tone of the opening section is rapidly replaced by one of simple hysteria.