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In the Loop
Why this pick
Its caustic political satire, rapid-fire verbal sparring, and morally elastic operators deliver the same pleasure as Nick Naylor arguing circles around everyone.
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MOVIE2005 1h 32m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Nick Naylor is a handsome, smooth-talking tobacco lobbying and the vice-president of a tobacco politics called the "Academy of Tobacco Studies", which for 15 years has been "researching" the link between tobacco smoking and lung cancer. They claim that their research—funded primarily by tobacco companies—has found no definitive evidence of any linkage. Naylor's job consists mainly of reporting the questionable research of the "Academy" to the public and defending Big Tobacco on television programs by questioning opposing health claims and advocating personal choice. Naylor and his friends, firearm lobbyist Bobby Jay Bliss and alcohol lobbyist Polly Bailey, meet every week and jokingly call themselves the "Merchants of Death" or "The MOD Squad".
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Aaron Eckhart
Nick Naylor
Maria Bello
Polly Bailey
Sam Elliott
Lorne Lutch
Katie Holmes
Heather Holloway
Robert Duvall
The Captain
Kim Dickens
Jill Naylor
Jeff Witzke
Kidnapper
Marianne Muellerleile
Teacher