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Aka: Onion Movie
We watch the Onion News, America's Finest News Source, with Dana Dobbs, Senior Correspondent Kip Kendall, and award-winning anchor Norm Archer. In addition to watching the news, we see the program's commercials, some commentary on the film as it proceeds, and we watch some terrorists in training. Behind the scenes, Onion News's corporate owner, Global Tetrahedron, seeks synergy by promoting its other products within Norm's news broadcast. Norm doesn't like it, especially when a toy penguin (think Energizer Bunny) waddles across his desk promoting a Global Tetrahedron film starring Steven ...
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Seagal. But Norm may end up needing Steven's help.
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The Onion--that gold standard of pitch-perfect news parody publications--brings its distinctly absurd-yet-relevant brand of satire to a hitherto untapped medium: the feature film! When the Onion News Network asks lead anchorman Norm Archer (Lou Cariou) to compromise his journalistic integrity in the name of pleasing a new corporate sponsor, Archer doesn't respond too kindly. Armed with an irreverent sketch comedy-style approach to a loose narrative, The Onion Movie takes aim at everything politics and society have to offer.
Één van de populairste satirische kranten van Amerika maakt de overgang van de gedrukte pagina's naar het zilveren scherm in deze politieke komedie die onderzoekt wanneer journalistieke integriteit in opspraak gebracht wordt door collectieve gevoeligheid. 'Onion News'-nieuwslezer Nom Archer is een zeer principiële journalist, zodat hij, wanneer hij gevraagd wordt om zich te buigen naar de wil van de bazen van de omroep, besluit om terug te slaan met een woede zoals ze nog nooit gezien hadden in de wereld van de nieuwsgaring.