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Release Date: 1982

Cast: Tony March, Rosalind Cash, Leslie Nielsen, Hardy Krüger, Marianne Marks, George Grizzard, John Saxon, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Robert Webber, Henry Silva, Ron Moody, Tom McFadden ...MORE

Cast: Tony March, Rosalind Cash, Leslie Nielsen, Hardy Krüger, Marianne Marks, George Grizzard, John Saxon, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Robert Webber, Henry Silva, Ron Moody, Tom McFadden, Toby Hughes, Cherie Michan, Sean Connery, Keith McConnell, Katharine Ross, Paul Lambert, G. D. Spradlin, Dean Stockwell, Robert Conrad ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Parody, Media Satire, Comedy, Satire, Thriller, Political cinema, Black comedy

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. Many reviews found the plot 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. Many reviews found the plot 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. In the near future, violence has become something of a national sport and television news has fallen to LESS