

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
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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