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"Wag the Dog" is available on Blu-ray from the Warner Archive Collection. You can purchase it via Amazon, Deep Discount, or directly from WBShop.

, though these usually require a membership to download the full-sized printable files. Spanish Import : There is a Spanish Blu-ray release titled Cortina de humo

: Includes "The Line Between Truth and Fiction" and short segments on the genius of writer David Mamet. Trailers : The original theatrical trailer and cast bios. Where to Buy & Pricing

When Wag the Dog was released in 1997, it was nominated for two Academy Awards (Best Actor for Hoffman and Best Adapted Screenplay for Mamet). Roger Ebert gave it four stars, calling it "a wicked satire that imagines the ultimate political spin."

: The distinction between real events and simulated ones blurs until the fabricated war becomes more "real" to the electorate than the actual scandal. A Prescient Cultural Legacy