Wag the Dog
Taking the basic idea of the United States Government covering up a scandal by starting a fake war, but changing the events and the scandal from Larry Beinhart's novel , screenwriter David Mamet 's 1997 darkly humorous satire casts Robert De Niro as governmental fixer Conrad Brean hired to steer media coverage from reports away from the President sexually assaulting a young girl in the Oval Office long enough for him to win re-election.
