Wag the Dog

Wag the Dog is a 1997 black comedy film starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro, co-starring Anne Heche, Denis Leary and William H. Macy about a Washington spin doctor who, merely days before a presidential election, distracts the electorate from a sex scandal by hiring a Hollywood film producer to construct a fake war with Albania. The scheme enlists the aid of a country music singer, who creates several theme songs for the war; a “fad king”; and a costume designer, who helps create a fictional special forces unit to fight the war’s supposed battles.

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120885/