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The Prisoner Or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair (2007)

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The Prisoner Or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair represents a follow-up to husband-and-wife filmmaking team Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein's critically-worshipped, defiantly nonpartisan documentary Gunner Palace (2004), on the day-to-day of American soldiers stationed on the Iraqi front. In that earlier picture, Tucker and Epperlein stumble across Yunis Khatayer Abbas, a Middle Eastern man who merely confesses, "I am a journalist," before American soldiers drag him off to incarceration. The Tuckers reconnected with Abbas at a later point, and disinter his backstory in this film. Tortured by the goons of Saddam Hussein's brother, Uday Hussein, Abbas later became a key terrorist suspect of the U.S. government, who believed that he intended to kill British prime minister Tony Blair. American authorities had Abbas thrown into the notorious Abu Ghirab prison (and other penitentiaries) and subjected him to month after month of grueling interrogation. Eventually, they released him - with a one-word apology. Tucker and Epperlein recount Abbas's story with an unusual approach: in lieu of a straight documentary, the filmmakers employ a comic-book iconography, with over 150 onscreen illustrations of Abbas's plight by Epperlein, intercut with clips from Abbas's home movies and glimpses of U.S. Army documents - all of which detail the sad absurdities that befell him. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi

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Director(s):
Michael TuckerPetra Epperlein, (more)
Theatrical MPAA Rating:
PG13
Format(s):
DVD
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Synopsis of The Prisoner Or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair

The Prisoner Or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair represents a follow-up to husband-and-wife filmmaking team Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein's critically-worshipped, defiantly nonpartisan documentary Gunner Palace (2004), on the day-to-day of American soldiers stationed on the Iraqi front. In that earlier picture, Tucker and Epperlein stumble across Yunis Khatayer Abbas, a Middle Eastern man who merely confesses, "I am a journalist," before American soldiers drag him off to incarceration. The Tuckers reconnected with Abbas at a later point, and disinter his backstory in this film. Tortured by the goons of Saddam Hussein's brother, Uday Hussein, Abbas later became a key terrorist suspect of the U.S. government, who believed that he intended to kill British prime minister Tony Blair. American authorities had Abbas thrown into the notorious Abu Ghirab prison (and other penitentiaries) and subjected him to month after month of grueling interrogation. Eventually, they released him - with a one-word apology. Tucker and Epperlein recount Abbas's story with an unusual approach: in lieu of a straight documentary, the filmmakers employ a comic-book iconography, with over 150 onscreen illustrations of Abbas's plight by Epperlein, intercut with clips from Abbas's home movies and glimpses of U.S. Army documents - all of which detail the sad absurdities that befell him. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi

Theatrical Feature Running Time:
72 mins

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Director(s):
Petra EpperleinMichael Tucker
Writer(s):
Petra EpperleinMichael Tucker
Producer(s):
Petra EpperleinMichael Tucker
Theatrical MPAA Rating:
PG13(Questionable for Children, Profanity, Adult Situations)
Categories:
Special InterestDocumentaryIndependent Films
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Christopher P.

When I first saw this movie, I was intrigued. After all, it borrows its title from Doctor Strangelove, but is not nearly as entertaining. First of all, Peter Sellers was nowhere to be found. It turns out that there wasn't even a nuclear bomb in this movie, either. Who could tell with a cool subversive title that included killing a major power's head of government that this would be as dark a comedy as it was.

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Susan J.

This "movie" stinks !!! One man talks the whole time about being arrested for planning to kill Tony Blair and he is a journalist. That's it, over. You've now seen the whole movie. It was rated 4 stars. You've got to be kidding me.

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