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Wrong Is Right
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| Wrong Is Right | |
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 original movie poster |
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| Directed by | Richard Brooks |
| Produced by | Richard Brooks |
| Written by | Richard Brooks |
| Starring | Sean Connery Robert Conrad Katharine Ross |
| Music by | Artie Kane |
| Cinematography | Fred J. Koenekamp |
| Editing by | George Grenville |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 1982 |
| Running time | 117 min. |
| IMDb profile | |
Wrong Is Right (Columbia Pictures, 1982) is a prescient black comedy thriller about the theft of two suitcase bombs, featuring the then novel plot conventions of media bias, government conspiracy, and Islamic terrorism. The film, which starred Sean Connery as superstar TV news reporter Patrick Hale, and directed by Richard Brooks from his own script based on Charles McCarry's novel, The Better Angels, was a commercial and critical failure at the time of its release. Most reviews found the film implausible. British reviews castigated the film for its distributor's attempt to tie it in with James Bond in its advertising scheme and retitling of the film, The Man with the Deadly Lens. In France, where the film was called Meurtes en direct, it was compared negatively to Bertrand Tavernier's La Morte en direct, as did Stanley Kaufmann of The New Republic.[1] The New York Daily News emerged as a champion for the film, Liz Smith calling it "a sleeper not to miss"[2] prior to its release, and Rex Reed and Kathleen Carroll giving it four[3] and three and a half star reviews[4] published a day apart.
The film is also notable for a joke at the end of the movie in which Connery rips off his toupee on camera. Jennifer Jason Leigh has a small role as a girl who is doing a fantasy killing of her parents on national TV (a controversial new recreational activity), and tells Hale that she hopes that her parents are watching, even though she has no particular grudge against them.
| Films directed by Richard Brooks |
| Crisis | The Light Touch | Deadline - U.S.A. | Battle Circus | Take the High Ground! | Flame and the Flesh | The Last Time I Saw Paris | Blackboard Jungle | The Last Hunt | The Catered Affair | Something of Value | The Brothers Karamazov | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Elmer Gantry | Sweet Bird of Youth | Lord Jim | The Professionals | In Cold Blood | The Happy Ending | $ | Bite the Bullet | Looking for Mr. Goodbar | Wrong Is Right | Fever Pitch |
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