ScreenWize

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.

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