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Release Date: 1982
Cast: Ron Moody, Hardy Krüger, Rosalind Cash, Sean Connery, Paul Lambert, Keith McConnell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Leslie Nielsen, Toby Hughes, G. D. Spradlin, Dean Stockwell, Robert Conrad ...MORE
Cast: Ron Moody, Hardy Krüger, Rosalind Cash, Sean Connery, Paul Lambert, Keith McConnell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Leslie Nielsen, Toby Hughes, G. D. Spradlin, Dean Stockwell, Robert Conrad, Marianne Marks, George Grizzard, Katharine Ross, Robert Webber, Tony March, Cherie Michan, Henry Silva, John Saxon, Tom McFadden ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Parody, Comedy, Black Comedy, Media Satire, Satire, Thriller, Political Cinema
Wrong Is Right (Columbia Pictures, 1982) is a black comedy thriller about the theft of two suitcase nukes, featuring the plot conventions of media bias, reality television, government conspiracy, and Islamic terrorism. The film, which starred Sean Connery as superstar TV news reporter Patrick Hale, and directed by Richard Brooks from his own script based on Charles McCarry's novel, The Better Angels, was a commercial and critical failure at the time of its release. Most reviews found the film implausible. British reviews castigated the film for its distributor's attempt to tie it in with... MORE
Wrong Is Right (Columbia Pictures, 1982) is a black comedy thriller about the theft of two suitcase nukes, featuring the plot conventions of media bias, reality television, government conspiracy, and Islamic terrorism. The film, which starred Sean Connery as superstar TV news reporter Patrick Hale, and directed by Richard Brooks from his own script based on Charles McCarry's novel, The Better Angels, was a commercial and critical failure at the time of its release. Most reviews found the film implausible. British reviews castigated the film for its distributor's attempt to tie it in with James Bond in its advertising scheme and retitling of the film, The Man with the Deadly Lens. In France, where the film was called Meurtres en direct, it was compared negatively to Bertrand Tavernier's La Mort en direct, as did Stanley Kauffmann of The New Republic. The New York Daily News emerged as a champion for the film, Liz Smith calling it "a sleeper not to miss" prior to its release, and Rex Reed and Kathleen Carroll giving it four and three and a half star reviews published a day apart.
Based on Charles McCarry's 1979 novel The Better Angels, Wrong is Right is set in a near future in which LESS
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