Wrong is Right (1982)
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38% of critics liked it
(8 reviews) -
38% of users liked it
(701 ratings)
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… More 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, Rovi
- Directed By
- Richard Brooks I
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
R,
- In Theaters
- Apr 16, 1982 Wide
- On DVD
- Mar 16, 2004
- Studio
- Sony Pictures Entertainment
Critic Reviews
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Variety Staff, Variety
Wild proceedings are packed with convoluted intrigue.
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, Time Out
Veering wildly between a quite well-written satire on the contemporary American political scene and a very ham-fisted nuclear blackmail thriller, its sheer eccentricity is quite engaging.
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Vincent Canby, New York Times
The star of Wrong Is Right is Sean Connery, giving the first uncertain performance of his otherwise exemplary career.
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, TV Guide's Movie Guide
The film is rather haphazard in its visual style and plotting, tallying up to a confused condemnation of our lack of morality.
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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice
Wrong Is Right is a cautionary tale about amorality.
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Cast
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Sean Connery
as Patrick Hale
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George Grizzard
as President Lockwood
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Robert Conrad
as Gen. Wombat
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Katharine Ross
as Sally Blake
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G.D. Spradlin
as Philandros
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John Saxon
as Homer Hubbard
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Henry Silva
as Rafeeq
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Leslie Nielsen
as Mallory
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Robert Webber
as Harvey
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Rosalind Cash
as Mrs. Ford
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Hardy Kruger
as Helmut Unger
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Dean Stockwell
as Hacker
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Ron Moody
as King Awad
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Cherie Michan
as Erika
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Angelo Bertolini
as Cardinal
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Ivy Bethune
as Housewife
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Robert Alan Browne
as Motorist
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Barry Cahill
as Husband
- Art Evans
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David Frankham
as British Reporter
- Teri Garr
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Mickey Jones
as Gunman
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Paul Lambert
as Defense Secretary
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Kiva Lawrence
as Receptionist
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Jennifer Jason Leigh
as Young Girl
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Tony March
as Abu
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Keith McConnell
as Smythe
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Tom McFadden
as Billy Bob Harper
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Myron Natwick
as Admiral
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George Skaff
as Qadee
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Joe Whipp
as John Brown
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Alexander Zale
as Faheem
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Dayna O'Brien
as President's Secretary
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Donald Bishop
as Congressman
- Ken Gale
