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WUSA

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PG,1hr 55min

Genre:

Drama

Release:

1970

Director:

Stuart Rosenberg

Starring:

Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Perkins ...more

Synopsis: Paul Newman served as co-producer of this allegorical drama and stars as Rheinhardt, a opportunistic drifter who ends up in New Orleans and hits up his old friend Farley (Laurence Harvey), a con man-turned-phony preacher, for a job. Farley is able to get Rheinhardt hired on as an announcer at a local radio station, WUSA, but the station is a right-wing propaganda mill that devotes its air time to venomous tirades against political and social progress. Rheinhardt is happy to be making decent money, ... Full Synopsis

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	Craig Butler, AMG Review Thanks to the rise to dominance of right wing talk radio in the 1980s and 1990s, WUSA arguably has more relevance today than it did when filmed in 1970. Unfortunately, its increased relevance does not make WUSA any better as drama. Polemical and didactic to the extreme, WUSA desperately needed to be leavened with some form of humor -- preferably satire, possibly irony, but at least with something approaching ... Full Review

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	Paul Newman Rheinhardt Joanne Woodward Geraldine Anthony Perkins Rainey Laurence Harvey Farley

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