In The Loop

Director:

Armando Iannucci

Details:

UK | 2009 | 106 mins | Rated 15

Starring:

Peter Capaldi, Tom Hollander, James Gandolfini

Links & Reviews:

IMDB, Mark Kermode, The Guardian

Synopsis

The President and the Prime Minister think a war sounds like a jolly good idea. Soon hapless Development Secretary (Tom Hollander) finds himself caught up in a race to war and, even worse, firmly in the sights of the human whirlwind that is Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi), the PM’s communications attack dog.

Following the success of his BAFTA award winning TV series ‘The Thick of It’, Armando Ianucci’s ‘In The Loop’ takes his wonderfully grotesque creation Malcolm Tucker on a foul-mouthed trip to Washington. ‘In the Loop’ is a Machiavellian look at the machinations of government and a hilarious political satire all in one.