Live from Baghdad
07/12/2002
A group of CNN reporters wrestle with journalistic ethics and the life-and-death perils of reporting during the Gulf War.A Directors Guild Award-winning movie for director Mick Jackson, starring Michael Keaton and Helena Bonham Carter. In 1990, CNN was a 24-hour news network in search of a 24-hour story. They were about to find it in Baghdad. Veteran CNN producer Robert Wiener and his longtime producing partner Ingrid Formanek find themselves in Iraq on the eve of war. Up against the big three networks, Weiner and his team are rebels with a cause, willing to take risks to get the biggest stories and - unlike their rivals - take them live at a moment's notice. As Baghdad becomes an inevitable US target, one by one the networks pull out of the city until only the crew from CNN remains. With a full-scale war soon to be launched all around them, and CNN ready to broadcast whatever happens 24 hours a day, Wiener and Formanek are about to risk their lives for the story of a lifetime.
Movie Information
Michael Keaton
as Robert Wiener
Helena Bonham Carter
as Ingrid Formanek
Joshua Leonard
as Mark Biello
Lili Taylor
as Judy Parker
David Suchet
as Naji Al-Hadithi
Bruce McGill
as Peter Arnett
Michael Murphy
as Tom Johnson
Robert Wisdom
as Bernard Shaw
Paul Guilfoyle
as Ed Turner
Clark Gregg
as Eason Jordan
Hamish Linklater
as Richard Roth
John Carroll Lynch
as Josh Holliman
Michael Cudlitz
as Tom Murphy
Pamela Sinha
as Fatima
Matt Keeslar
as Nic Robertson
Kurt Fuller
as Inky
David Kaye
as Ben Dupont
Jimmy Palumbo
as News Producer
David Shatraw
as Joe Wilson
Peter Jason
as Stu
Brian George
as Al Rasheed Manager
Jerry Haleva
as Saddam Hussein
Mark Arnott
as Bob Furnad
Inny Clemons
as CNN Deskman
Chet Grissom
as Will King
Val Lauren
as CNN Technician
Kymberly Newberry
as Secretary
Kurt Hargan
as CNN Control Room Manager
Paul Tranghese
as CNN Stage Manager
Tom Amandes
as Joe Erlichman
Thomas Crawford
as Nigel Babcock
James Waterston
as Eric
Bill Moseley
as Rex
Roy Werner
as Bob
John Ciccolini
as 1st Journalist
Andrew Borba
as 2nd Journalist
Jack Armstrong
as 3rd Journalist
Will Radford
as British Journalist #1
Kevin Brief
as Singing Brit #2
Steven Houska
as British Journalist #3
Murphy Dunne
as Bob Vinton
Lee Dawson
as Raymond Page
Michael James Kacey
as American Hostage #1
Craig Anton
as American Hostage #2
Jason Antoon
as Mr. Mazin
Carole Davis
as Mrs. Awatiff
Shaun Toub
as Sadoun Al-Jenabi
Mahryah Shain
as Al Rasheed Waiter
Joel Swetow
as Taxi Driver
Alan Desatti
as Iraqi Guard #1
Ofer Samra
as Iraqi Bomb Shelter Guard
Jay Harik
as Sadam's Translator
David Franco
as Saddam's Security Man
Castulo Guerra
as Kuwaiti Doctor
