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- Release Date: 2007
- Runtime: 73 min
- Genre: Documentary
- Starring: George Bush, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Phil Donahue ... see all
- Director: Loretta Alper, Jeremy Earp
- Plot: War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after... Read more
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| Oct 30, 2008Matchflick
Favorite Movie Quote: "Somehow this madness must cease.
An outstanding examination of war from Lydon Johnson and Vietnam up to the present invasion of Iraq by George W. Bush.
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| Mar 19, 2008Hollywood Reporter, US
Based on the book by Norman Solomon, "War Made Easy" makes its timely arguments with passion and conviction.....while reporting from Vietnam to maverick Sen. Wayne Morse's passionate arguments against presidential authority during the same period..... ... Full Review
eFilmCritic.com
Using sizable amounts of network and cable news footage, interviews with Solomon, and connective tissue narration by Sean Penn, Easy is an unusually level-headed film about such a relentlessly sensitive topic.
The picture is more a conversation with Solomon as he breaks down the intentions of the media and clarifies how propaganda is alive and well in todays hornets nest of soundbite competition.
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The Cinema Source
The film fails to dig at all.
No original reporting is conductedjust this Norman Solomon fellow (still not completely sure who he is) lecturing at the camera.
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eFilmCritic.com
Using sizable amounts of network and cable news footage, interviews with Solomon, and connective tissue narration by Sean Penn, "Easy" is an unusually level-headed film about such a relentlessly sensitive topic.
The picture is more a conversation with Solomon as he breaks down the intentions of the media and clarifies how propaganda is alive and well in today's hornet's nest of soundbite competition.
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News
War Made Easy
associatedcontent.com –
2008-03-19
How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to DeathSean Penn is narrating a film criticizing every president from Kennedy to the current president, George W. ... Full Article
WAR MADE EASY
nypost.com –
2008-03-14
WITH Sean Penn narrat ing, you know which side the documentary "War Made Easy" is going to take. And it does, claiming that from Korea to Vietnam to Iraq, the US government has misled the public - and the media... ... Full Article
Unrated ; documentary war violence. Where: Oak Street. There's no claim of objectivity to this documentary narrated by Sean Penn and directed by left-leaning filmmakers Loretta Alper and Jeremy Earp, but it is thought-provoking work nonetheless. ... Full Article
Like the title suggests, this eye-opening documentary from Jeremy Earp (HIJACKING CATASTROPHE: 9/11, FEAR & THE SELLING OF AMERICAN EMPIRE) and Loretta Alper is a how-to manual, not for waging war, but how to make military intervention not only palatable... ... Full Article