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Im Sog der Gier

Originaltitel: Weapons of Mass Distraction
  • Fernsehfilm
  • 1997
  • 16
  • 1 Std. 32 Min.
IMDb-BEWERTUNG
6,0/10
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IHRE BEWERTUNG
Im Sog der Gier (1997)
SatireDramaKomödieKriminalität

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuTwo media moguls get into a nasty power struggle for the ownership of a pro football team, which causes drastic effects on their personal and professional lives.Two media moguls get into a nasty power struggle for the ownership of a pro football team, which causes drastic effects on their personal and professional lives.Two media moguls get into a nasty power struggle for the ownership of a pro football team, which causes drastic effects on their personal and professional lives.

  • Regie
    • Stephen Surjik
  • Drehbuch
    • Larry Gelbart
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Gabriel Byrne
    • Ben Kingsley
    • Mimi Rogers
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    6,0/10
    844
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    • Regie
      • Stephen Surjik
    • Drehbuch
      • Larry Gelbart
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • Gabriel Byrne
      • Ben Kingsley
      • Mimi Rogers
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  • Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro
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    • Für 4 Primetime Emmys nominiert
      • 1 Gewinn & 9 Nominierungen insgesamt

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    Gabriel Byrne
    Gabriel Byrne
    • Lionel Powers
    Ben Kingsley
    Ben Kingsley
    • Julian Messenger
    Mimi Rogers
    Mimi Rogers
    • Ariel Powers (aka Alexi)
    Jeffrey Tambor
    Jeffrey Tambor
    • Alan Blanchard
    Illeana Douglas
    Illeana Douglas
    • Rita Pascoe
    Paul Mazursky
    Paul Mazursky
    • Dr. Jonathon Cummings
    Chris Mulkey
    Chris Mulkey
    • Jerry Pascoe
    R. Lee Ermey
    R. Lee Ermey
    • Billy Paxton
    Caroline Aaron
    Caroline Aaron
    • Robin Zimmer
    Jason Lee
    Jason Lee
    • Phillip Messenger
    Christina Pickles
    Christina Pickles
    • Mrs. Frieda Messinger
    Tom Wright
    Tom Wright
    • Marvel Sears
    Randall Arney
    • Sen. Quentin Sayles
    Ben Bode
    Ben Bode
    • Peter Messenger
    L. Scott Caldwell
    L. Scott Caldwell
    • Sen. Condon
    Patrick Fabian
    Patrick Fabian
    • Brandon Joyner
    Alex Kingston
    Alex Kingston
    • Verity Graham
    Jordan Ladd
    Jordan Ladd
    • Letitia
    • Regie
      • Stephen Surjik
    • Drehbuch
      • Larry Gelbart
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    Stu-5

    A prime example of satire gone awry.

    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.
    8jrahn

    Another one of those movies I just "happened" on late one night ...

    Insomnia was acting up late one night and I started channel surfing and happened on this flick on Cinemax ... there was only about thirty minutes left of the movie but even at that point it SUCKED me right in.

    It's a great flick to watch on a Sunday afternoon - watch it closely. Gabriel Byrne and Ben Kingsley are excellent. I think this was the first movie I saw Jason Lee appear in.

    The multiple stories coinciding into one single story of rich scumbags tearing into other's lives for their own gain.

    Illeana Douglas's character (and her husband) ... their story ... the secret histories of the rich scumbags ... a lot going on in this movie ...

    HIGHLY recommend it.
    10JKpplger

    Very well done satire

    A great story about the "silent" (if you count out the use of their media) attacks that two television tycoons carry on each other; all to determine who will be the owner of an important football team. While the two are "having fun" in destroying one another, the middle class is living through (and watching) the consequences.

    It deserves at least 7 out of 10.
    7Dano-33

    Not "The Player", but still entertaining

    I rented this film because Ben Kinsley is was of my favorite actors of the present time. I thought the acting was funny and smart, the dialogue delicious, and the humour extremely dark. It's not the best film or television movie ever made, but it was entertaining and kept my interest. I wouldn't recommend this film to everyone, but it was one of the brightest and most refreashing films I've seen from HBO.
    7jonathanruano

    Corporate Greed and the Media

    Weapons of Mass Destraction is about men without souls or, if they had souls, they lost them along the way while on their quest for more wealth and power. Corporate titans Lionel Powers (Gabriel Byrne) and Julian Messenger (Ben Kingsley) are fighting over a pro-football team, but the object of their struggle is irrelevant. What is relevant are the despicable things they are willing to do to each other to get want what they want.

    Of course, one of the reasons why they can engage in blackmail and smear campaigns has a lot to do with the fact that there are very few characters in the film who have any morality. I won't spoil the twists and turns. Suffice to say, the powers that be engage in extra-marital affairs, rape, child molestation, murder, blackmail and bribery. The screenwriters were even able to introduce the holocaust at one point. It is hard to sympathize with people like that, even when they suffer. This is largely because this film is about horrible people, but also because the characters themselves are reduced -- ironically because of their great success in the corporate world -- to beasts with impulses. Lionel's relations with his wife are characterized almost solely by lust, rather than any true affection. Only Jerry Pascoe (Chris Mulkey), the hapless worker who was recently laid off, possesses any humanity, though his morality falls by the wayside by the end of the film.

    Yet in spite of the emptiness of the main characters or maybe because of it, I had a perverse fascination with Powers and Messenger's struggle as it unfolded. Part of it was my interest in watching naked ambition and sheer determination on screen. At one point, Messenger told Powers I survived Adolf Hitler and therefore I could survive you. Lionel responded, "I will try not to disappoint you." As it turned out, Messenger had it better under the Fuhrer.

    The other main character in this film is, of course, the media. The media is probably even more despicable than the characters, which says a lot. It focuses almost exclusively on sex scandals, car chases, petty murders and like, and ignores anything with substance, meaning or sophistication. Perhaps, Lionel Powers and Julian Messenger are, in some respects, parodies of the media and advertising.

    So what do I think of the film? It is not a great film. Unlike Visconti's "The Damned," which is also about moral decay, "Weapons of Mass Distractions" lacks the sophistication that would make its characters fascinating, which is the only way to compensate for our lack of sympathy with them. In fact, stupidity, selfishness and base impulses -- the qualities that are more common in children -- are the only things driving this film, which is really not enough. It is not an optimistic picture, because we are witnessing people living in hell on earth, which makes the church that Powers visits with his wife rather ironic. But it's still an interesting film in a perverse sort of way. It makes fun of sensationalism, but it also uses it to great effect to keep people watching. In many ways, "Weapons of Mass Destruction" reminds me of the fascination one gets looking at the sensational (and false) stories on the front cover of the national inquirer or the Globe. Perhaps in the end, the film is not about Powers and Messenger, but about ourselves. It tells us something about ourselves.

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      Lionel Powers: Apparently his rotten spying bastards are better than my rotten spying bastards!

    • Verbindungen
      Featured in The 49th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1997)
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      A - You're Adorable
      Written by Buddy Kaye, Fred Wise and Sidney Lippman

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    • Erscheinungsdatum
      • 17. Mai 1997 (Vereinigte Staaten)
    • Herkunftsland
      • Vereinigte Staaten
    • Sprache
      • Englisch
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      • Weapons of Mass Distraction
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      • Beverly Hills, Kalifornien, USA
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