Cherie Michan, Dean Stockwell, G.D. Spradlin

Actually, wrong is just wrong in this leaden spoof of media irresponsibility. Written and directed by Richard Brooks, this film is a sorry attempt to one-up the near-perfect Network. In this 19...( read more  read more... )82 satire, Sean Connery plays a network correspondent who finds himself using and being used by terrorists, government officials, arms dealers, and the like while trying to scoop the competition. In some ways, this film looks positively prescient in its depiction of media ruthlessness, anticipating by more than a decade the rise of the kind of tabloid TV that has spread like a virus. But the writing is so flat that Connery barely escapes with his dignity, something that can't be said for a supporting cast of second-raters that includes Robert Conrad and John Saxon. --Marshall Fine

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R, 117 min.

Directed by: Richard Brooks I

Release Date: April 16, 1982

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  • September 20, 2008
    Really ahead of its time with the story of news becoming entertainment.
  • May 17, 2008
    Without a doubt, one of the most prescient movies I've seen. Considering that it was made in the midst of the Cold War and it concerns oil crises and war in the Middle East, it is truly ahead of its times and right in the middle of ours. The performances are adequately hokey fo...( read more)r the genre of satire, but too over-the-top for my taste ... esp. the opening voice over. Good social criticism, worth the time.
  • February 1, 2008
    was ok, terrorism and the world, you can see the World Trade Towers towards the end,,,eerie.
  • October 8, 2006
    Average black comedy about the TV world.

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