In the Loop
The fate of the world is on the line.
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 46 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 12, 2010
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: IFC Independent Film
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Gina McKee, Peter Capaldi, Tom Hollander, James Gandolfini & David Rasche | |
Performer: | Mimi Kennedy, Steve Coogan, Anna Chlumsky & Chris Addison | |
Directed by | Armando Iannucci | |
Screenwriting by | Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche, Simon Blackwell & Jesse Armstrong | |
Composition by | Adem Ilhan | |
Produced by | Kevin Loader & Adam Tandy | |
Director of Photography: | Jamie Cairney | |
Executive Production by | Simon Fawcett, Paula Jalfon, David M. Thompson & Christine Langan |
Entertainment Reviews:
This alleged satire, which received four-star treatment from other critics, left me with a ho-hum and sorry feeling that I had wasted an evening seeing it.
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The Atlantic
Finally, fa-HINE-ally, someone has made a proper comedy. Armando Iannucci, to be exact, with In the Loop, his annihilating satire of recent Anglo-American misadventures in the Middle East.
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The eXile
3.5 stars out of 5 -- The whole cast is stellar. And it proves that smart and funny can exist in the same movie...
Rolling Stone
Rating: 4/5 --
Shot in fly-on-the-wall style, In The Loop is as expertly and continuously funny as any comedy in years.
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The Age (Australia)
Rating: 4/5 --
A wicked, mean-spirited comedy filled with nasty people...I haven't laughed this hard in a long time.
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Spectrum Culture
[A] biting political satire about politicians and their operatives involved in a campaign to promote a war....The film features some witty performances...
USA Today
Some have found In the Loop shallow for detaching its fevered gamesmanship from actual reasoning or consequences -- but isn't it rather chilling, how easy it is for the loop to form in a vacuum?
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Product Description:
IN THE LOOP is a fast-paced, lancet-witted ensemble comedy from first-time film director Armando Iannucci, based on his satirical BBC sitcom, THE THICK OF IT. The film tracks the lies, misunderstandings, good and bad intel, and PR blunders that escalate into a full-blown (fictional) crisis in the Middle East over the course of a few days, in a few conversations and meetings, in a few corridors of British and American power. Though played for laughs, the movie demonstrates how the most incidental factors (leaked papers, hastily spoken soundbites) and players (aides, interns, and low-level government officials) can influence the course of history.
The pitch-perfect cast does a great job with Iannucci's script, improvising just enough to maintain the pseudo-documentary feel of the TV show. Even when the action gets loose and rollicking, the tone is tightly controlled satire, and the humor emerges organically from the situations and relationships at hand. Peter Capaldi, reprising his TV role, is hilarious as a foulmouthed, perpetually het-up Director of Communications for the British Prime Minister. Mimi Kennedy gives a droll but heartfelt performance as an antiwar U.S. diplomat and shares some touching and funny scenes with a more subdued than usual James Gandolfini as a U.S. general with surprising views on war. And Tom Hollander quietly steals the show as the hapless British Secretary of State for International Development whose careless remark in an interview sets off the events that catapult him into deeper waters than he has ever been in.
The pitch-perfect cast does a great job with Iannucci's script, improvising just enough to maintain the pseudo-documentary feel of the TV show. Even when the action gets loose and rollicking, the tone is tightly controlled satire, and the humor emerges organically from the situations and relationships at hand. Peter Capaldi, reprising his TV role, is hilarious as a foulmouthed, perpetually het-up Director of Communications for the British Prime Minister. Mimi Kennedy gives a droll but heartfelt performance as an antiwar U.S. diplomat and shares some touching and funny scenes with a more subdued than usual James Gandolfini as a U.S. general with surprising views on war. And Tom Hollander quietly steals the show as the hapless British Secretary of State for International Development whose careless remark in an interview sets off the events that catapult him into deeper waters than he has ever been in.
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