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Wrong Is Right
1982
Broad political farce which follows the exploits of a world-travelling TV news correspondent Patrick Hale (Sean Connery) working for the World Television Network, who uncovers a terrorist plot to get hold of a nuclear bomb to sell to a Middle-Eastern oil country. This is an often funny yet unnerving satire, where the President .. Read more
| Starring | Sean Connery, Robert Conrad, Katharine Ross, Hardy Kruger |
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| Director | Richard Brooks |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
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Wrong Is Right
Broad political farce which follows the exploits of a world-travelling TV news correspondent Patrick Hale (Sean Connery) working for the World Television Network, who uncovers a terrorist plot to get hold of a nuclear bomb to sell to a Middle-Eastern oil country. This is an often funny yet unnerving satire, where the President of the United States (George Grizzard) tries to deny to the public that there's a bomb, while his political opponent tries to prove its existences for electoral gain, and chauvinist General Wombat (Robert Conrad) just wants to bomb the whole goddamn Middle-East....
| Starring | Sean Connery, Robert Conrad, Katharine Ross, Hardy Kruger, George Grizzard, Ron Moody, Leslie Nielsen, Dean Stockwell, Rosalind Cash, John Saxon, Henry Silva, G.D. Spradlin, Robert Webber |
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| Director | Richard Brooks |
| Studio | SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 53 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Dubbed | German, Spanish |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | Production year: 1982 To Rent: DVD: 23 Aug 2004 |
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Perhaps the oddest major Hollywood feature of 1982. Veering wildly between a quite well-written satire on the... read more on Time Out
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The Wrong Movie Is Right!
This movie was very hard to follow. The story was very chopped and disjunct. From what I gather from the ScreenSelect blurb, it is a James Bond style movie ... read more »
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Prophetic
This early 80s oddity has Sean Connery miscast as Patrick Hale, a TV anchorman cum roving reporter who heads out to trouble spots with this TV camera and little... read more »
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Prescient but surprisingly dull
Richard Brooks was a prolific director who had the ability to make wonderful pictures ('In cold blood', for instance) and complete duds ('The ... read more »
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Prescient to say the least
I never knew all this stuff had been going on so long. Suicide bombings, Islamic Fundamentalists, attempts to get Weapons of Mass ... read more »
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Wrong Is Right
Broad political farce which follows the exploits of a world-travelling TV news correspondent Patrick Hale (Sean Connery) working for the World Television Network, who uncovers a terrorist plot to get hold of a nuclear bomb to sell to a Middle-Eastern oil country. This is an often funny yet ...
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