A group of CNN reporters venture to the Iraqi capital to cover the Gulf War.
Acting
Keaton's wired exhaustion; Bonham Carter's unglamorous grit.
Direction
Jackson's claustrophobic hotel-as-bunker atmosphere.
Production
Jordan-shot Baghdad convincingly sweaty and paranoid.
Director
Mick Jackson
Michael Keaton
Robert Wiener
Helena Bonham Carter
Ingrid Formanek
Joshua Leonard
Mark Biello
Lili Taylor
Judy Parker
David Suchet
Naji Al-Hadithi
Bruce McGill
Peter Arnett
Michael Murphy
Tom Johnson
Robert Wisdom
Bernard Shaw
Paul Guilfoyle
Ed Turner
Clark Gregg
Eason Jordan
Hamish Linklater
Richard Roth
John Carroll Lynch
Josh Holliman
Michael Cudlitz
Tom Murphy
Pamela Sinha
Fatima
Matt Keeslar
Nic Robertson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Real Robert Wiener consulted extensively; the actual CNN crew visited set and reportedly found it 'too clean.' Jordanian military provided vehicles and extras.
This aired months before the 2003 Iraq invasion, making its 'Gulf War nostalgia' accidentally prophetic. audiences watching in 2002 knew what the characters didn't: they'd be back.
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