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Live from Baghdad

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Live from Baghdad (2002)

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Reviews Counted:7

Fresh:7

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Average Rating:7/10

Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins

Genre: Dramas

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

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Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
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Nothing fascinates the media as much as itself.

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07/03/03
David Bezanson
David Bezanson
Filmcritic.com

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.

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02/13/03
Barry Johnson
Barry Johnson
Hollywood Reporter
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As a movie, Live From Baghdad constitutes another first-class production from HBO.

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01/06/03
Tom Shales
Tom Shales
Washington Post

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.

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01/04/03
Josh Ralske
Josh Ralske
All Movie Guide

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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12/08/02
Jerry Weinstein
Jerry Weinstein
culturevulture.net

One of the best movies I've seen about electronic journalism.

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12/02/02
Richard Roeper
Richard Roeper
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