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Brexit

Original title: Brexit: The Uncivil War
  • TV Movie
  • 2019
  • TV-14
  • 1h 38m
IMDb RATING
7.0/10
18K
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Benedict Cumberbatch in Brexit (2019)
Benedict Cumberbatch stars as strategist Dominic Cummings in the HBO movie "Brexit," detailing the story behind the vote for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union.
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Political strategist Dominic Cummings leads a popular but controversial campaign to convince British voters to leave the European Union from 2015 up until the present day.Political strategist Dominic Cummings leads a popular but controversial campaign to convince British voters to leave the European Union from 2015 up until the present day.Political strategist Dominic Cummings leads a popular but controversial campaign to convince British voters to leave the European Union from 2015 up until the present day.

  • Director
    • Toby Haynes
  • Writer
    • James Graham
  • Stars
    • Benedict Cumberbatch
    • Sarah Belcher
    • Malcolm Freeman
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.0/10
    18K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Toby Haynes
    • Writer
      • James Graham
    • Stars
      • Benedict Cumberbatch
      • Sarah Belcher
      • Malcolm Freeman
    • 111User reviews
    • 30Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
      • 1 win & 12 nominations total

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    Benedict Cumberbatch
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    • Dominic Cummings
    Sarah Belcher
    Sarah Belcher
    • Female Consultant
    Malcolm Freeman
    • Male Consultant
    Lucy Russell
    Lucy Russell
    • Elizabeth Denham
    Oliver Birch
    • Policy Strategist 1
    Ross Hatt
    • Policy Strategist 2
    Liz White
    Liz White
    • Mary Wakefield
    Simon Paisley Day
    Simon Paisley Day
    • Douglas Carswell
    John Heffernan
    John Heffernan
    • Matthew Elliott
    Lee Boardman
    Lee Boardman
    • Arron Banks
    Paul Ryan
    Paul Ryan
    • Nigel Farage
    Kate O'Flynn
    Kate O'Flynn
    • Victoria Woodcock
    Tim Steed
    Tim Steed
    • Daniel Hannan
    Nicholas Day
    Nicholas Day
    • John Mills
    Tim McMullan
    Tim McMullan
    • Bernard Jenkin
    Richard Durden
    Richard Durden
    • Bill Cash
    Henrietta Clemett
    • Lucy Thomas
    Rory Kinnear
    Rory Kinnear
    • Craig Oliver
    • Director
      • Toby Haynes
    • Writer
      • James Graham
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    VoyagerMN1986

    Completely ignores that both sides used big data and influencers

    Firstly this entire "docu-drama" completely ignores that both sides used social media big data exploiters. It ignorers the fact that lots of influential institutions with a direct self interest in remain (including for example BBC itself which content analysis studies have shown used "experts" opposed to Brexit at an 3:1 ratio) also positions themselves as neutral despite strong anti-brexit self interests and messages.

    It also implies that people voted based on facebook or twitter, when while liberal voters tend to want to be with the "pack," this is not the case for independent or conservative voters who are much less likely to vote based on perceptions and psychological need to be within groupthink norms.

    Lastly the producers of the film themselves have a direct self interest in remain. The fact is a majority of people in the UK do not have such a self interest. But the elite today are no different than the feudal lords. Feudal lords were the expert class of their day. They after all were the educated and literate. Does that mean their decisions were in everyone's interest? hardly. They had a self interest in preserving their class over their nation and all its classes, just as the makers of this propaganda film do.

    Oh Brexit was a product of propaganda? Well what is this film if not propaganda from the other side??
    8sebastiantorrestodd

    More about control than politics

    Outsider of the Uk, watched this movie trying to understand the brexit thing, but ended up thinking about how tec and social media when organized can take a great control in our decisions and predict our behavior, left me thinking about control while giving me some perspective about what happened with the brexit at the same time.

    I also liked how I couldn't figure out what was the posture of the director, did he vote leave? Did he vote stay? I couldn't determine if he was bias or not, but the message about control was heard.
    gravitymichael

    Something sinister is afoot

    The sinister to which I am referring is not the machinations of the Brexit campaign but this little piece itself. A detailed critique of propaganda which is, itself, an intricate piece of propaganda. Take it for what it is and there's no problem, fail to do so and your as much as a puppet as the puppets this movie purports that every leaver was.
    Kirpianuscus

    great

    It is one of films who you see, at the first, for Benedict Cumberbatch. Than, scene by scene, you understand. The mechanism of a war. A terrible one. About hidden tools. About politic and about profound convictions. "Brexit" is the fine choice for discover the essence of a special process, almost endless. Because , in fact, it is not exactly a film about United Kingdom and its future or about European Union. It represents the film about us, about connections, truths, believes and causes. For me, it is a profound powerful film for its great honesty. A film about the fall of a time. About ambition more than realism. About myths and lies and fears. And about, off course, force of vote, pressure of democracy. One of the most old and respectable. Maybe, a little, about consequences. Short, a useful film.
    closetogivingup

    ITS AMAZING, ITs truthfull and it shows you behind the scenes.

    I wont write a long review as I am near the end of the film-docu. but its been an eyeopener for me! I am an Avid BREXITEER. But one who has made his mind up with my wife is is from another country outside the EU.

    We had to deal with the EU some years ago when my wife had to apply for a visa to come and stay here in England, The hoops the EU legislations made her jump through were shocking! Criminal background checks for both of us and it cost use around 3000 Euros and took 2.5 years to finalise, YET we are seeing people land on our beaches or be invited in by the left with open arms who we know nothing about? My wife has degrees in teaching and specialises in teaching kids with Aspergers, ADHD ect but we still had to go through all the rigma, How is this right?

    For me the Film-Docu shows how flawed the eu and its machine is, how one sided the left and eu are.

    IF you want a great insight into the truth you MUST watch this!

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    • Trivia
      Despite being a 'remain' advocate, Benedict Cumberbatch only agreed to do the film after he had been assured by James Graham, who wrote Brexit: The Uncivil War, that it is not going to end up being just a 'pro-EU stitch-up.'
    • Goofs
      Cummings is found typing on his laptop in a storeroom completely in the dark. There should be some illumination from the laptop's monitor.
    • Quotes

      Dominic Cummings: ...as a global society we are entering a series of profound economic, cultural, social and political transitions, the like of which the world has never seen: massive increase in resource requirements, rising tide of religious extremism, the synthesis of the generational inequalities in the West on an historic level.

    • Connections
      Featured in Jeremy Vine: Episode #2.9 (2019)
    • Soundtracks
      Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125: 1st movement. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso
      Written by Ludwig van Beethoven

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    • Release date
      • January 19, 2019 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Official sites
      • All4 (United Kingdom)
      • Channel 4 (United Kingdom)
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Brexit: The Uncivil War
    • Filming locations
      • Kensington Gardens, Westminster, Greater London, England, UK(on location)
    • Production companies
      • Baffin Media
      • Channel 4 Television Corporation
      • House Productions
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 38m(98 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.78 : 1

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