In the Loop

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  • Opened July 24, 2009 
  • 1 hr 49 min
  • NR
  • The US President and UK Prime Minister fancy a war. But not everyone agrees that war is a good thing. The US General Miller (James Gandolfini) doesn't think so and neither does the British Secretary of State for International Development, Simon Foster (Tom Hollander). 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 (Chris Addison) can sleep with the right intern (Anna Chlumsky), and if they can both stop the Prime Minister's chief spin-doctor Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi) rigging the vote at the UN, they can halt the war. If they don't... well, they can always fire their Director of Communications Judy (Gina McKee), 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 (Steve Coogan). Full synopsis

  • Cast: Peter Capaldi, James Gandolfini, Tom Hollander, David Rasche, Gina McKee
  • Director: Armando Iannucci
  • Genres: Comedy

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San Francisco Chronicle
| Mick LaSalle

The language is brilliant, and the laugh lines come so quickly that you'd probably have to watch the movie twice to get them all. Read full review

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Entertainment Weekly
| Lisa Schwarzbaum

The chattering smarty-pants who ran the U.S. government on "The West Wing" are slow talkers compared with the motormouthed and hilariously imperfect power elite in the brainy British comedy In the Loop. Read full review

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NPR
| Bob Mondello

The performances are explosively funny, from Hollander's increasingly bewildered and way-out-of-his-depth Simon to Chris Addison's hapless PR fledgling. But the star is Peter Capaldi. Read full review

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Boston Globe
| Ty Burr

As a ranking cabinet minister in the brutally funny political satire In the Loop, actor Peter Capaldi unfurls dazzling verbal ribbons of the foulest language imaginable, thunderbolts of vulgarity that carry the force of precision carpet-bombing. Read full review

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Steve Coogan in "In the Loop."