Sean Connery Movie:

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		Our Price: $36.50
		MPAA Rating: R (Restricted) Media: DVD

Editorial Review:
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

Wrong Is Right [Region 2] Reviews:
A weird look at our world from decades ago
2009-12-16 - A bomb when released in the 1980's, viewers today can find fascinating parallels to Connery's CNN-type globe-hoping journalist and news events today. Decades before it arrived, Middle East terrorism, news manipulation and what is more important, the truth or ratings? Connery is his usual self-assured self supported by Katherine Ross as a CIA operastive, George Grizzard as the President, Leslie Nielson as the Senator looking to be President (again), Henry Silva as a Mommar Quadafi type , Hardy Kruger as a man with A-Bombs for sale, Dean Stockwell as a Presidential aide and Robert Conrad as Gen. Wombat.

Excellent Movie
2009-12-16 - I have been looking for this movie for years. Thank you for the timely shipping. A great Buy!

Connery Excels in Prophetic Media Satire
2009-04-20 - A critical and commercial failure, "Wrong Is Right" (1982) was simply ahead of its time. Writer-director Richard Brooks' fast-moving, globe-trotting media satire has an eerie resonance when viewed today. Sean Connery delivers one of his most underrated performances as the Cronkite-inspired TV journalist, with George Grizzard's "Bush-league" President Lockwood a standout among the supporting players. Watch for the ending in which Connery tosses off his toupee!

The Man With the Deadly Lens
2009-01-24 - Sean Connery was on top form in Richard Brooks' undervalued Wrong is Right (released outside the US as The Man With the Deadly Lens in a bizarre attempt to convince international audiences it was Connery's then impending comeback as James Bond!), a colossal box-office disaster in 1982 that suddenly seems relevant all over again as Connery's superstar TV reporter finds himself mixed up in various Middle East schemes involving two stolen nuclear bombs, terrorists, the CIA, an election campaign and chequebook journalism. Very much in the vein of The President's Analyst, albeit far less psychedelic, it's filled with great swipes at political double speak ("You deny it?" "Of course not: to deny it would be to admit that there was something to deny.") and the politics of celebrity (and vice versa) and holds up remarkably well.

Sadly no extras but a decent 1.85:1 widescreen transfer.

Wrong is Right
2009-01-08 - Excellent satire, starring Sean Connery and featuring Robert Conrad as the inimitable General Wombat. I don't know if someone was gazing into a crystal ball as they wrote the screenplay, but the movie was discomforting almost thirty years ago and is downright spooky now.