Top 6 Political Comedy Movies

Year: 2008

thank you for smoking1. Thank You For Smoking (2006) Tobacco industry lobbyist Nick Naylor has a seemingly impossible task: promoting cigarette smoking in a time when the health hazards of the activity have become too plain to ignore. Nick, however, revels in his job, using argument and twisted logic to place, as often as not, his clients in the positions of either altruistic do-gooders or victims.

fahrenheit 9112. Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) Michael Moore examines what happened in the United States after Sept. 11, the Bush administration’s financial ties to Saudi Arabia and the bin Laden family, and why the United States has become a target for hatred and terrorism. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.

3. SiCKO (2007)

Academy Award-winning director Michael Moore sets out to investigate the U.S. healthcare system. A documentary comparing the highly profitable American health care industry to other nations, and HMO horror stories.

4. Election (1999)

An obnoxious overachiever running for student body president is opposed by an unlikely candidate egged on by a vindictive teacher. Mathew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon star in this brilliant satirical comedy, which was nominated for an Academy Award for best adapted screenplay.

5. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

An insane general starts a process to nuclear holocaust that a war room of politicians and generals frantically try to stop. But of course, “there’s no fighting in the war room.” One of the 100 best movies of all time, starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott.

6. Wag the Dog (1997)

A spin-doctor and a Hollywood producer join efforts to fabricate a war in order to cover up a presidential sex scandal. A film for the Clinton era if ever there was one, starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro. Nominated for an Academy Award for best adapted screenplay.


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