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starring: Sean Connery, George Grizzard, Robert Conrad, Katharine Ross, John Saxondirected by: Richard Brooks
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302824421
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6302824427
Label: Columbia/Tri-Star
Manufacturer: Columbia/Tri-Star
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Columbia/Tri-Star
Release Date: January 01, 2002
Running Time: 117 minutes
Sales Rank: 36426
Studio: Columbia/Tri-Star
Theatrical Release Date: April 16, 1982
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Actually, wrong is just wrong in this leaden spoof of media irresponsibility. Written and directed by Richard Brooks, this film is a sorry attempt to one-up the near-perfect Network. In this 1982 satire, Sean Connery plays a network correspondent who finds himself using and being used by terrorists, government officials, arms dealers, and the like while trying to scoop the competition. In some ways, this film looks positively prescient in its depiction of media ruthlessness, anticipating by more than a decade the rise of the kind of tabloid TV that has spread like a virus. But the writing is so flat that Connery barely escapes with his dignity, something that can't be said for a supporting cast of second-raters that includes Robert Conrad and John Saxon. --Marshall Fine
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - The "BROOKS CODE"
From the standpoint of film making this is a confused movie and is a very disappointing outing for the "great late director Richard Brooks". It's seems almost as if Brooks intentionaly sabotaged his own film. To this day I can not account the editing and disjointedness. I can only dream about what it could have been.
On the other hand I have "loved" this film for years. In many ways it is like a puzzle that you just can't get the last couple of pieces to fit correctly. In segments the ... Read More
Rating: - You Won't Go Wrong With This Film!
A buried treasure, Wrong Is Right - as so many others have commented - is one of the rare pieces of fiction that predates the facts. Kudos to Richard Brooks for accurately predicting modern day media and international politics from the vantage point of 1981.
The movie is criticized for its apparent uneveness - swaying back and forth between thrilling drama and outright humor. As it stands, the screenplay is pure political satire. Some can stomach it, others can't. I maintain that it's a ... Read More
Rating:  - Freakishly accurate predicton of 9/11 20-plus years ago!
Watching this movie is really frightening (in a good way) when you consider the world we live in today, and that this movie was made back in 1982.
Here's the plot: A buffoonish US President from Texas (with a token black woman on his White House staff) finds out (during an election year) that an Arab terrorist group is planting two bombs in the World Trade Center in NYC.
His critics say there is no evidence of these WMDs. In the end, he "finds" the bombs and uses it as justification ... Read More
Rating: - Disturbingly Prophetic of 9/11 and the War on Iraq
Back in 1983, I knew this movie had to be good, because my mother lobbied so hard to keep my father from taking me to it. She was afraid that it would be cynical, subversive, and morally reprehensible. He took me, anyway, and she was blessedly right. Naturally, I loved it. WRONG IS RIGHT was truly a film out-of-time. It feels either astonishingly dated (it makes a good double feature with DR. STRANGELOVE, or THE PRESIDENT'S ANALYST) or disturbingly prophetic (WAG THE DOG's team and Michael Moore could have ... Read More
Rating: - today's headlines written twenty years ago
I remember my friends and I seeing this in the theater when it was originally released. We were Connery fans sorely disappointed with a satire depicting such insanely implausible ideas as "suicide bombers" killing themselves and innocent bystanders to make the news and advance their cause. All this against a backdrop of a story about a terrorist Middle East nation getting its hands on some nukes. The movie ended, we didn't know the good guy from bad, and when you go to a Sean Connery movie having only known him ... Read More
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