In the Loop

Cast & Crew

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Director
Armando Iannucci
Executive Producer
Christine Langan
Executive Producer
Paula Jalfon
Producer
Adam Tandy
Producer
David M. Thompson

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Lt. Gen. George Miller
James Gandolfini
Karen Clarke
Mimi Kennedy
Malcolm Tucker
Peter Capaldi
Simon Foster
Tom Hollander
Liza Weld
Anna Chlumsky

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Production Designer
Christina Casali
Costume Designer
Ros Little
Location Manager
Tom Howard
Key Makeup Artist
Marese Langan
Composer
Adam Ilhan

Synopsis

Genre: Comedy

IN THE LOOP is a foul-mouthed comedy that draws on non-specific events to create a world that is terrifyingly familiar: The US President and UK Prime Minister fancy a war, but not everyone agrees that war is a good thing. US General Miller (James Gandolfini The Sopranos, The Taking Of Pelham 123) certainly doesn't think so and neither does the British Secretary of State for International Development, Simon Foster (Tom Hollander Pirates of the Caribbean, Pride and Prejudice). But when the mild-mannered minister inadvertently appears to back the war on prime-time television, he immediately attracts the attention of the PMs venomously aggressive communications chief Malcolm Tucker (reprised from The Thick of It by Peter Capaldi), who latches onto him like a hawk. Soon, the Brits are in Washington, where diplomatic relations collide with trans-Atlantic spin doctors and Fosters off-hand remark quickly spirals into an insurmountable mountain of conflict. - In Theaters July 24th, 2009.

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Get ‘In The Loop’ on DVD November 10th, 2009.

Published on: November 1, 2009

By Shannon Nystedt
MovieSet.com

Pick up In The Loop, the hilarious British satire on war lobbying from director/writer Armando Iannucci.

In the film, the US President and UK Prime Minister fancy a war. But not everyone agrees that war is a good thing. The US General Miller doesn't think so and neither does the British Secretary of State for International Development, Simon Foster. 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 can sleep with the right intern, and if they can both stop the Prime Minister's chief spin-doctor Malcolm Tucker rigging the vote at the UN, they can halt the war. If they don't... well, they can always sack their Director of Communications Judy, who they never liked anyway.

In the loop stars James Gandolfini, Peter Capaldi, Tom Hollander and Gina McKee. Pick up the DVD for special features including commentary, deleted scenes, interviews and more.

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