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Sean Connery,
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George Grizzard,
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: Columbia TriStar
: Comedies, Black Comedy
: 117 min.
: English
: English, French, Korean, Japanese
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Based on Charles McCarry's 1979 novel The Better Angels, Wrong is Right is set in a near future in which violence has become something of a national sport and television news has fallen to tabloid depths (a significantly bigger stretch in 1982, when the film was released.) Star Sean Connery plays Patrick Hale, a globe-trotting reporter with access to a staggering array of world leaders. As the film opens, he has ventured to the Arab country of Hegreb to interview his old acquaintance, King Ibn Awad (Ron Moody). Awad has learned that the President of the United States (George Grizzard) may have issued orders for his removal; as a result, Awad) is apparently making arrangements to deliver two mini-nuclear devices -- each about the size of a small suitcase -- to a terrorist, with the intention of detonating them in Israel and the United States, unless the President resigns. In the intricate plot that unfolds, nothing is quite the way it seems, and Hale finds himself caught between political leaders, revolutionaries, CIA agents and other figures, trying to get to the bottom of it all. ~ Craig Butler, All Movie Guide
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by richling
April 4, 2004 - 10:27 PM PDT
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9 out of 9 members found this review helpful
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Now, I'm not going say that this movie is "ripped from today's headlines!" because that's just way too cliché. Besides, it's obvious that this movie is over 20 years old. However, let me just mention a few elements found in this film:
suicide bombers;
oil politics;
a key political figure who's a black woman advising on foreign policy (as VP of the US);
the CIA trying to avoid being a patsy for presidential mis-steps;
mideast policy suddenly tilting a president's chance for re-election in the polls;
president regains popularity after declaring war;
fund-raising BBQs in Texas;
tele-evangelists justifying assassination;
violent conflict with an "embedded" journalist;
journalism as entertainment;
executive privilege combined with plausible deniability;
weapons of mass destruction that might not exist; and
"peace through war."
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