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Release Date: 1997

Cast: James Earl Jones, Denis Leary, Ron Perlman, James Coburn, Beau Bridges, Kevin Dunn, Joanna Cassidy, Elizabeth Peña, Dan Hedaya, William Schallert, Brian Keith, Phil Hartman ...MORE

Cast: James Earl Jones, Denis Leary, Ron Perlman, James Coburn, Beau Bridges, Kevin Dunn, Joanna Cassidy, Elizabeth Peña, Dan Hedaya, William Schallert, Brian Keith, Phil Hartman, Kevin McCarthy ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Parody, Science Fiction, Television movie, Comedy, Political satire, Political cinema, Black comedy

The Second Civil War is a satirical/comedy film made for the HBO cable television network and first shown on March 15, 1997. Directed by Joe Dante, the film is a satire about anti-immigrant sentiment in the melting pot that is the United States. The film was shown in theaters in Italy, Portugal, the Netherlands and France in 1997 and 1998, before being released on videotape. In Australia, the film was released directly to videotape in April/May 1998. The DVD was released in 2005. Beau Bridges won the 1997 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Special for his... MORE

The Second Civil War is a satirical/comedy film made for the HBO cable television network and first shown on March 15, 1997. Directed by Joe Dante, the film is a satire about anti-immigrant sentiment in the melting pot that is the United States. The film was shown in theaters in Italy, Portugal, the Netherlands and France in 1997 and 1998, before being released on videotape. In Australia, the film was released directly to videotape in April/May 1998. The DVD was released in 2005. Beau Bridges won the 1997 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Special for his portrayal of a Governor of Idaho who decides to close that state's borders to immigrants, precipitating a national crisis. The film also stars James Earl Jones, Elizabeth Peña and Denis Leary as reporters for a CNN like cable network, ("NN"); Phil Hartman as the U.S. President, James Coburn as his chief political advisor, and William Schallert as the Secretary of Defense. Brian Keith portrayed a general in one of his final movie roles. The 1997 film is set in a United States in which foreign immigration has skyrocketed: The Mayor of Los Angeles speaks only in Spanish, Rhode Island is populated mostly LESS