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Live from Baghdad (2002)
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Reviews Counted:7
Fresh:7
Rotten:0
Average Rating:7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins
Genre: Television
Synopsis: With George Herbert Walker Bush prepared to strike Iraqi forces, CNN was in a unique position to deliver 24 hour coverage. Producers Robert Wiener (Michael Keaton) and Igrid Formanek (Helena Bonham... With George Herbert Walker Bush prepared to strike Iraqi forces, CNN was in a unique position to deliver 24 hour coverage. Producers Robert Wiener (Michael Keaton) and Igrid Formanek (Helena Bonham Carter) capitalized on this opportunity by offering unflinching reporting that risked their lives as they became correspondents from Baghdad just before the first U.S. Gulf War. Based on a true story that changed television journalism, this powerful HBO feature won Mick Jackson a Director's Guild Award for his work. [More]
Starring: Michael Keaton, Helena Bonham-Carter, Lili Taylor, Bruce McGill
Starring: Michael Keaton, Helena Bonham-Carter, Lili Taylor, Bruce McGill, Jerry Haleva
Director: Mick Jackson
Director: Mick Jackson
Reviews for Live from Baghdad
The teleplay from Wiener, Richard Chapman, John Patrick Shanley and Timothy J. Sexton is mostly taut and exciting, except when it pauses for a minimally romantic time out between Wiener and Formanek.
As a movie, Live From Baghdad constitutes another first-class production from HBO.
Mick Jackson's Live From Baghdad works as an entertaining drama, but it provides disappointingly inadequate context in its depiction of the events surrounding the 1991 Gulf War.
Michael Keaton gives his most taut performance since an uncredited turn in Out of Sight and Helena Bonham-Carter has split the difference between her Merchant Ivory days and her desolate Marla in David Fincher's Fight Club.
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