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How to Fake a War

  • 2019
  • 1h 24m
IMDb RATING
4.5/10
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Katherine Parkinson, Jay Pharoah, and Lily Newmark in How to Fake a War (2019)
When an outbreak of peace threatens rock star Harry Hope's charity concert, he dispatches his PR consultant to create a fake war story - until the concert, at least.
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When an outbreak of peace threatens rock star Harry Hope's charity concert, he dispatches his PR consultant to create a fake war story - until the concert, at least.When an outbreak of peace threatens rock star Harry Hope's charity concert, he dispatches his PR consultant to create a fake war story - until the concert, at least.When an outbreak of peace threatens rock star Harry Hope's charity concert, he dispatches his PR consultant to create a fake war story - until the concert, at least.

  • Director
    • Rudolph Herzog
  • Writers
    • Tim Price
    • Raid Sabbah
  • Stars
    • Katherine Parkinson
    • Hannah Jewell
    • Volker Zack
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.5/10
    407
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    • Director
      • Rudolph Herzog
    • Writers
      • Tim Price
      • Raid Sabbah
    • Stars
      • Katherine Parkinson
      • Hannah Jewell
      • Volker Zack
    • 11User reviews
    • 5Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 3 nominations total

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    Katherine Parkinson
    Katherine Parkinson
    • Kate Hemmings
    Hannah Jewell
    • News Anchor
    Volker Zack
    Volker Zack
    • Boris
    • (as Volker Michalowski)
    Jay Pharoah
    Jay Pharoah
    • Harry Hope
    Brian Idowu
    • Kofi Annan
    Onise Oniani
    • Boris the Butcher's General
    Tengiz Javakhidze
    • Boris the Butcher's General
    Tariel Mamardashvili
    • Boris the Butcher's General
    Zurab Pavliashvili
    • Boris the Butcher's General
    Giorgi Makashvili
    • Boris the Butcher's General
    Davit Gigolashvili
    • Boris the Butcher's General
    Giorgi Kadagidze
    • Boris the Butcher's General
    Daryl McCormack
    Daryl McCormack
    • Matt
    Ali Cook
    Ali Cook
    • Simon
    Mark Mulvey
    • Ginger Tween
    Lily Newmark
    Lily Newmark
    • Peggy
    Ia Vakhania
    • Air Stewardess
    Kan Kiachislav
    • Dalai Lama
    • Director
      • Rudolph Herzog
    • Writers
      • Tim Price
      • Raid Sabbah
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    1butura-24315

    A comedy?

    When was the war a comedy? Dozens of Georgian civilians died in 2008, Russo-Georgian war, and dozen Georgians had to flee their homes.

    Movie is a lowest of lowest.
    8casablancavic

    Very informative

    While this is a comedy, this is a very straight up thruth.

    Media plays an immense amount of how things are percieved and especially during crisis such as a war or flood or some natural disaster.

    The right photo, the right editing, the right video or sound clip can start or stop fights, wars or communication in all sorts.

    Very well done and for those that marked this as a boring or uninteresting movie, they surely don't understand how real this is.

    A good publicist can get attention...a great publicist can start and end wars.
    9lightbeing-48261

    very enjoyable, attractive actresses

    Kudos to Tim Price and Raid Sabbah. This a great piece of British, low key humour. I guess if you don't get the humour as a guy, you were too busy wanting to see guns and cleavage. As a woman, it's clear this movie is held down by two beautiful women (Katherine Parkinson and Lily Newmark). This movie was well written, VERY funny even though the jokes are subtle. Acting is at a high level, it's not the best movie of the year, but possibly the best budget movie of the year. Ultimately I think this movie is closet satire, happy to laugh at everything including it's own production levels. It's sincere, and it's worth keeping an open mind to anything these writers are working on...
    Gordon-11

    It's wildly funny

    This story is pretty far fetched, but it's exactly what makes it really funny. I enjoyed it loads.
    Helismoke

    Implausible?

    Normally I would agree the premise of this movie is absolutely ridiculous to a normal person. However, I'm not a normal person: I flew combat missions in Vietnam. Flew for the DEA in Guatemala and Columbia during the Pablo Escobar years, flew for the U. S. D. O. S. Between Israel and Egypt, flew for the U. N. in the West Sahara ( Minurso), flew for the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Defense and Aviation, etc.

    Everything here is plausible. We lost the Vietnam War to a Liberal media and now that Social media is wagging the tail of the dog in current events.

    Remember that of the two incidents that started the Vietnam War, one was entirely made up.

    I'm just sayin'.

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    • Trivia
      Harry Hope is based off rappers Kanye West and Jay-Z and Drake.
    • Goofs
      (at around 6 mins) Kate Hemmings Said "My Sister has arrived From Droop in Dorset". (at around 14 mins) Peggy is calling Auntie Kate.

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    • Release date
      • August 6, 2020 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Official site
      • Film and Music Entertainment (United Kingdom)
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • How to Sell a War
    • Filming locations
      • Tbilisi, Georgia
    • Production companies
      • 20 Steps Productions
      • Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME)
      • Film and Music Entertainment (IRE)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 24 minutes
    • Color
      • Color

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