Wrong Is Right (1982)

User Rating:

5.9/10   

Director:

Richard Brooks

Writers:

Charles McCarry (novel)
Richard Brooks (screenplay)

Release Date:

16 April 1982 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

Only Patrick Hale can prevent a desperate president, the head of the CIA, a trigger happy general, terrorists, an arms dealer, and religious fanatics from destroying our world, But he has other things on his mind.

Plot:

A satire of American news reporting, Covert Agencies, and political system. The theft of two suitcase sized nuclear weapons...

Plot Keywords:

Terrorist Group | Nuclear Weapon | Terrorist | Satire | Refinery

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Sean Connery	...	Patrick Hale
George Grizzard	...	President John Lockwood
Robert Conrad	...	Lt. Gen. Wombat
Katharine Ross	...	Sally Blake
John Saxon	...	Homer Hubbard
Henry Silva	...	Rafeeq
Hardy Krüger	...	Helmut Unger (as Hardy Kruger)
Toby Hughes	...	TV Cameraman
G.D. Spradlin	...	CIA Director Philindros
Leslie Nielsen	...	Mallory
Paul Lambert	...	Defense Secretary
Robert Webber	...	Harvey
Jennifer Jason Leigh	...	Young Girl on Reality Program
Dean Stockwell	...	Chief of Staff Hacker
Rosalind Cash	...	Vice President Ford

Also Known As:

The Man with the Deadly Lens

Runtime:

117 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Metrocolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

UK:15 (1986) (cut) | UK:15 (2004) (uncut) | UK:AA (1982) | Iceland:12 (video rating) | Iceland:16 (unconfirmed) | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 | Singapore:PG | USA:R | West Germany:16

Filming Locations:

Alamogordo, New Mexico, USA

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivia:

During the film's final scene, Sean Connery tosses off the obvious toupee he had been wearing throughout the film before he parachutes out of a plane.

Movie Connections:

Spoofs Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

A great movie about television Second to NETWORK

WRONG IS RIGHT was not marketed right when it came out in 1982 and was due to fail. The movie ad tag lines called it "Dr. Strangelove for the 80's," which was a lame attempt to encapsulate a dark comedy by referring to another classic dark comedy, which also dealt with nuclear bombs. I think people were put off by that and because it was two years after the Iranian Hostage Crisis, people didn't want a dark comedy about the Middle East. I loved it in 1982, I love it even more today, because in large part, it was right, wrong is right was right.

HOWEVER, it predicted so much of what has happened in the world since, that it is so prophetic as to be scary. I won't say anything from the movie, but if you watch it and realize when it was made, it's incredible and shows the true genius of those who made it.

Sean Connery leads a cast which is superb.

You have to remember, this was before CNN became the go to news channel.

Enjoy.