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17 May 1997 (USA) morePlot:
Two media moguls get into a nasty power struggle for the ownership of a pro football team which takes a drastic effect on their personal and professional lives. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
Nominated for 4 Primetime Emmys. Another 4 nominations moreUser Comments:
A prime example of satire gone awry. moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Gabriel Byrne | ... | Lionel Powers |
 | Ben Kingsley | ... | Julian Messenger |
 | Mimi Rogers | ... | Ariel Powers (aka Alexi) |
 | Jeffrey Tambor | ... | Alan Blanchard |
 | Illeana Douglas | ... | Rita Pascoe |
 | Paul Mazursky | ... | Dr. Jonathon Cummings |
 | Chris Mulkey | ... | Jerry Pascoe |
 | R. Lee Ermey | ... | Billy Paxton |
| Caroline Aaron | ... | Robin Zimmer |
 | Jason Lee | ... | Phillip Messenger |
| Christina Pickles | ... | Mrs. Frieda Messinger |
 | Tom Wright | ... | Marvel Sears |
| Randall Arney | ... | Sen. Quentin Sayles |
 | Ben Bode | ... | Peter Messenger |
| L. Scott Caldwell | ... | Sen. Condon |
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Rated R for language, sexuality, and depiction of a suicide.Parents Guide:
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Lionel Powers: I'll see you in Hell!Julian Messenger: I hope so, dear boy! It wouldn't be the same without you!
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JUMP, JIVE, 'N' WAIL moreFAQ
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Weapons of Mass Distraction proves to be an inconsequential mess of loose plot points and unanswered questions. In what was initially supposed to be a satire, it only gets lost in it's web of lurid, superfluous, irrelevant occurrences.
Two billionares rival over ownership of a famous American football team. That's what we understand from the blurb. Unfortunately, the references to that are just so vague that it is somewhat of a sub-plot. There really is no plot. It goes nowhere!
On one end of the spectrum we have Robert Altman's fine satire "The Player", focusing on big business and movies. On the other end of the spectrum we have this.
Combine this: helicopter accident, closet gay businessman, jewish holocaust surviver, appendage enlargement, trans-gender wife and adulterous cable repairman newly fired. That's precisely what the film is!
It's awful. One out of ten.