In The Loop

Country: UK
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2009
Rating: M
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Set within the corridors of power (Washington, D.C.) and the hallways of powerlessness (London) during the lead-up to an unspecified Middle East conflict, the inciting event in this particular loop is an offhand non-remark by the UK's Minister for Development, Simon Foster (Tom Hollander). Foster, a cultured dishevelment and a man far too polite for the storm that befalls him, offers up an ill-chosen metaphor on wars and how unforeseeable they can be - an entirely accurate comment, of course - which is then picked up by the rabid international media and parlayed into the kind of inadvertent bombshell that rapidly metastasizes into major news.