Wrong Is Right (1982)

Directed by

Richard Brooks

Genre

comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 58m

Rated

R

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 60 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A television news reporter chases a story about two stolen suitcase nuclear bombs. The film satirizes media sensationalism and political power games.

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What happens

Wrong Is Right, released in the UK as The Man with the Deadly Lens, is a 1982 American political satire comedy thriller film directed, written, and co-produced by Richard Brooks and starring Sean Connery as TV news reporter Patrick Hale. The film, based on Charles McCarry's novel The Better Angels (1979), is about the theft of two suitcase nukes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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