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The Second Civil War (1997) — watch online on iFILM Joe Dante's pitch-black political satire starring Beau Bridges, Phil Hartman, James Earl Jones, Denis Leary, Ron Perlman and James Coburn.
When a plane of Pakistani orphans is routed to Idaho for permanent resettlement, the state's governor shuts the border. The president demands it reopen. Cable news network News Net smells ratings and fans the flames. What starts as a regional standoff spirals into a constitutional crisis, a media circus, and something that begins to look uncomfortably like an actual second civil war. Dante made this film well before maximalist cable news became the defining fact of American political life, and the accuracy is unsettling.
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