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Bookmark this pageWrong Is Right (1982)
Director: Richard Brooks
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From Time Out Film Guide
Perhaps the oddest major Hollywood feature of 1982. 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. Connery is excellent as a superstar TV reporter, but he deserves a better plot; and the adulation his character receives from Arab leaders seems as ridiculous as his network's apparently effortless ability to transmit live anywhere, any time. Writer/director Brooks is on stronger ground when tilting at the extraordinary contradictions in America's political morality, but his one major coup is to demonstrate just how good a TV performer Connery could indeed be.Author: DP
Cast & crew
Director: Richard Brooks
Producer: Richard Brooks
Cast: Sean Connery, George Grizzard, Robert Conrad, Katharine Ross, GD Spradlin, John Saxon, Henry Silva, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Webber, Rosalind Cash, Hardy Krüger, Dean Stockwell full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 118 mins
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