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Aug 12, 2005 · A tony ensemble cast, led by Rupert Graves, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Malcolm McDowell, plus a suitably out-there storyline, are torpedoed by the visuals in “Rag Tale.”
HorrorFan5799 23 August 2005. Set during the momentous U.S. election week of 2004, this satirical story follows the editor of The Rag (Graves) a London newspaper - as he embarks upon an affair with the Chairman's wife (Leigh) and follows him as he tries to save his job over the course of the week.
Aug 16, 2005 · The Rag is a best-selling scandal sheet run by publishingtycoon, Richard Morton (McDowell), who is married to American-born wife MJ(Jennifer Jason Leigh). She in turn is sleeping with editor-in...
Oct 7, 2005 · With Rupert Graves, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Lucy Davis, John Sessions. A romance that plays out in the splashy, sensational world of British tabloids. Over the course of one week, the journalists of tabloid newspaper 'The Rag' uncover and manufacture as much scandal as they can get their hands on.
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- Comedy, Romance, Drama
- Mary McGuckian
- 2005-10-07
Reviewed by: Angus Wolfe Murray. Tweet. The camera has Tourette's. After 15 minutes of fast zooms, sliced cuts, topsy pans and turvy close ups you want to be sick, or leave the cinema. Words like "pretentious" and "pulverised" tumble into the soup of what was once your critical judgement.
A battle of wills between Eddy and the chairman over the control of the paper in the wake of M.J's adultery escalates to a grand finale, revolving around a ridiculous, contrived and implausible plot twist, Shakespearean in its extravagance, but absurdly out of place in a film that strives to be so hip and modern.
Sep 19, 2005 · Director Mary McGuckian (Best) holds the front page up for observation and ridicule in Rag Tale, a highly entertaining British black comedy set in the murky world of tabloid journalism.
