In the Loop
Making fun of politics and politicians, a group of British and American activists, who do their best and cooperate, in order to make things well with the two countries, as the war is about to be fired.
8 August 1974, Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
14 October 1965, Middleton, Manchester, England, UK
1974, Epsom, Surrey, England, UK
13 November 1963, Brady, Texas, USA
7 August 1944, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
August 20, 2009
This enormously witty satire follows a British diplomatic staff as they fly to Washington to confer with their U.S. counterparts, who are secretly ginning up an invasion of the Middle East.
October 21, 2009
It's fantastic stuff, so over-the-top, so scabrous, so bitterly brilliant that you have to assume that, on some level, it rings true.
July 21, 2012
In the Loop has some of the most colorful language you'll find in any piece of cinema, rivaling movies like Kevin Smith's Clerks. And this is a hilarious thing.
August 21, 2009
The film, while often very funny, is so relentlessly savage it could destroy whatever shred of respect you may still retain for politicians and that flogged horse called democracy.
March 13, 2011
Avoid the latest Apatow/Rogen template trash and give this a go, I promise you will not be disappointed.
August 13, 2009
This is the funniest movie of the summer.
October 29, 2010
There's only so much wittiness and quips we can watch before we get irritated at the fact that not much actually happens.
August 21, 2009
The brainchild of British director Armando Iannucci, it takes on the politicians at their own dirty game, daring to fictionally embellish the tawdry facts, to out-spin the spin doctors.
October 21, 2010
The War Room has been replaced by drably decorated offices, insane army generals have been replaced by eerily sensible ones, and the man with the most power is not the POTUS but instead a PR-man with a filthy mouth.
September 29, 2012
Satire hasn't felt this sharp since BrassEye.
August 21, 2009
Painfully funny satire of British and American bureaucrats in the days leading up to the Iraq War.
