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In the Loop DVD

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Release Date: 1/12/2010
Original Release: 2009
Format: DVD
Length: 106 minutes
Rating: Not Rated
Rating Reason: (Reason unavailable)
UPC: 030306971391
Studio: IFC Films

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In the Loop Blu-ray Disc

Directed by:

Armando Iannucci

Featuring:

James Gandolfini, Mimi Kennedy, Tom Hollander, Peter Capaldi, Chris Addison, Gina McKee, Steve Coogan, Anna Chlumsky

Categories:

Action/Adventure, War, Military (Usa), Great Britain

	Description

	IN THE LOOP is a fast-paced, lancet-witted ensemble comedy from first-time film director Armando Iannucci, based on his satirical BBC sitcom, THE THICK OF IT. The film tracks the lies, misunderstandings, good and bad intel, and PR blunders that escalate into a full-blown (fictional) crisis in the Middle East over the course of a few days, in a few conversations and meetings, in a few corridors of British and American power. Though played for laughs, the movie demonstrates how the most incidental factors (leaked papers, hastily spoken soundbites) and players (aides, interns, and low-level government officials) can influence the course of history. The pitch-perfect cast does a great job with Iannucci's script, improvising just enough to maintain the pseudo-documentary feel of the TV show. Even when the action gets loose and rollicking, the tone is tightly controlled satire, and the humor emerges organically from the situations and relationships at hand. Peter Capaldi, reprising his TV role, is hilarious as a foulmouthed, perpetually het-up Director of Communications for the British Prime Minister. Mimi Kennedy gives a droll but heartfelt performance as an antiwar U.S. diplomat and shares some touching and funny scenes with a more subdued than usual James Gandolfini as a U.S. general with surprising views on war. And Tom Hollander quietly steals the show as the hapless British Secretary of State for International Development whose careless remark in an interview sets off the events that catapult him into deeper waters than he has ever been in.

	DVD Features

	Region 1 Note: Trailer Deleted scenes TV Spot Behind the scenes featuretee Widescreen - 1.85 Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English Subtitles - Spanish

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Average Rating: Number of Reviews: 3 (view all)

Posted on January 23, 2010

Reviewed by: Zara

First of all, cheers to seeing an adult Anna Chlumsky return to movies. Always liked her as the child actress from MY GIRL and like her even better now, with the whip-smart and sassy intern that she...
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Posted on October 15, 2009

Reviewed by: Martin

This film is probably a bit to Brittish to have been seen by a majority of the people on here, but I being a bit of a fan of Armando Iannucci's (espechally as he's behind one of the funniest Brittish...
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Posted on September 19, 2009

Reviewed by: James

I had to watch it twice, second time with subtitles, because I did not get much from the crazy mix of British and American English with tons of swearing and many cultural references for the first...
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