In the Loop
2009, Rated: 18A, 106min
Twelve thousand troops. But that’s not enough. That’s the amount that are going to die. And at the end of a war you need some soldiers left, really, or else it looks like you’ve lost.
After Simon Foster, the British Secretary of State for International Development, accidentally supports military action in the Middle East on television, he finds himself with many supports in Washington. Unfortunately Foster is actually very much against the war. Now he has the chance to get close to the pro-war folks and hopefully prevent them from rigging a UN vote to go to war.
- Directed by
- Armando Iannucci
- Written by
- Jesse Armstrong & Simon Blackwell
- Staring
- Peter Capaldi, Tom Hollander, Gina McKee, & James Gandolfini