In the Loop

While there have been a plethora of political films made over the years, few of them come close to the comic insanity of Amando Iannucci’s brilliant film, In the Loop. A flustered young British secretary named Simon Foster (Tom Hollander) accidentally makes a comment to the press about the Iraqi war that strays outside the official party lines. The innocuous comment starts off a landslide of commentary and controversy that soon stretches to the Pentagon, the United Nations and beyond. This is how politics really works