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In the Loop (2009)

Movie: In the Loop (2009)

“The US President and UK Prime Minister fancy a war. But not everyone agrees that war is a good thing. The US General Miller doesn’t think so and neither does the British Secretary of State for International Development, Simon Foster. But, after Simon accidentally backs military action on TV, he suddenly has a lot of friends in Washington, DC. If Simon can get in with the right DC people, if his entourage of one can sleep with the right intern, and if they can both stop the Prime Minister’s chief spin-doctor Malcolm Tucker rigging the vote at the UN, they can halt the war. If they don’t… well, they can always sack their Director of Communications Judy, who they never liked anyway and who’s back home dealing with voters with blocked drains and a man who’s angry about a collapsing wall. Written by Loop Film Productions Ltd/AT”

  • Director: Armando Iannucci
  • Release Date:
    17 April 2009 (UK)
  • Run Time:
    106 min
  • Country: UK
  • Genre: Comedy

Tagline: The fate of the world is on the line.

Trivia: Armando Iannucci, in an interview with Terry Gross on 27 July 2009, said that he at one point told his British cast members to think of “the first time you went to Hollywood”, for the scenes that follow the Prime Minister’s trip to Washington: “(Y)ou had all sorts of meetings, and all sorts of agents came up to you and said how great you were, and how you thought it was all going to change, and then after your stay in Hollywood for three or four days, you went home empty-handed”. He described this as the experience he had when going to Los Angeles a few years before to talk about possibilities for an American version of his show "The Thick of It" (2005).

Goofs: Revealing mistakes: British outlets are seen in both the Washington hotel and United Nations scenes.

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