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In The Loop. Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi). Copyright: BBC / Aramid Entertainment
In The Loop

In The Loop

  • 2009 film

The US President and the UK Prime Minister fancy going to war - but this one will be quick. Looks like Malcolm Tucker is in the thick of it again. Stars Peter Capaldi, Tom Hollander, James Gandolfini, Chris Addison, Anna Chlumsky and more.

  • JustWatch Streaming rank this week: 152

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UK premiere for In The Loop

Armando Iannucci's In The Loop is to receive its British premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival next month. The spin-off from the BBC satire The Thick Of It will be unveiled at the Sundance Film Festival tonight, where it has already been highly praised by reviewers who attended a preview screening, before heading to Iannucci's birthplace.

Chortle, 22nd January 2009

Hollywood Elsewhere Review

It's easily one of the funniest comedies about governmental inanity and media mis-speak I've ever seen. And it has some absolutely wonderful insult humor. I'm talking one beautiful saber thrust and club-bludgeon after another.

Jeffrey Wells, Hollywood Elsewhere, 13th January 2009

Star of British TV satire set to conquer America

Armando Iannucci, creator of the BBC's acclaimed The Thick of It, heads a record number of British entries at the Sundance film festival with a new political comedy featuring the star of The Sopranos.

Vanessa Thorpe, The Observer, 11th January 2009

Armando's Loop gets Sundance premiere

Armando Iannucci's movie spin-off from The Thick of It is receive its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival next month. In The Loop - which stars James Gandolfini, Chris Addison, Peter Capaldi, and Steve Coogan - will have its first public screening on January 22.

Chortle, 15th December 2008

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