I always liked Dustin Hoffman, and I remember him in the classic movies "The Graduate", "Tootsie", "Midnight Cowboy", "Papillon", "Marathon Man", "Kramer vs. Kramer", "All the President's Men", and "Rain Man". The one I remember the best is "The Graduate", and I think that's because he and Ann Bancroft are doing a great job of the story about the woman who seduces her daughter's boyfriend.
However, there is another Dustin Hoffman-movie which I, actually to my own great surprise, have forgotten totally: "Wag the Dog" (1997), which is based upon the novel by Larry Beinhart from 1993: "American Hero".
This may sound crazy, but the reason why I came to remember this movie is the tRumpian's insane Iran-war that started a few weeks ago. As it is, tRump has nothing to do with this specific movie, but part of the recent Epstein- and Iran-situation, as it's seen by most people, Americans or not, seem to mirror it. The story is about a president, played by Michael Belson, who has an urgent need of a distraction from a sex scandal that could ruin his career: He was caught making sexual advances to an underage girl in The Oval Office.
Michael Belson
Now, what to do to save the president's career and him from criminal prosecutions? Well, Dustin Hoffman and Robert the Niro as a Hollywood producer and a spin doctor, decide that a fake war might take the heat off the guilty president, so they go about fabricating what looks like a war in Albania, but which is only a make-believe-story.
Strangely enough, a few weeks after the release of "Wag the Dog" the then president, Bill Clinton, had an affair with the young Monica Lewinsky that drew a lot of attention. Was it what led to the bombings in Sudan and Iraq? Also, there was the American intervention in the Kosovo War which one might suspect was related to the Clinton-Lewinsky-scandal.
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