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Wag the Dog
1997 film by Barry Levinson
Wag the Dog
Wag the Dog is a 1997 American political satire black comedy film starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro. Produced and directed by Barry Levinson, the film centers on spin doctor Conrad Brean and Hollywood producer Stanley Motss who fabricate a war in Albania to distract voters from a presidential sex scandal. The screenplay by Hilary Henkin and David Mamet is loosely adapted from Larry Beinhart's 1993 novel American Hero. Wag the Dog was released one month before the news broke of the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal and eight months before the bombing of the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Sudan by the Clinton administration in August 1998, which prompted the media to draw comparisons between the film and these events. Comparison was also made in December 1998, when the administration initiated a bombing campaign of Iraq during Bill Clinton's impeachment trial for the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal, and again in spring 1999, when the administration intervened in the Kosovo War by initiating...
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