This flawed made-for-cable feature takes a darkly humorous look at the rivalry betwen media moguls Rupert Murdoch and Ted Turner.
Competing to buy a pro-football team, egotistical multi-millionaires Lionel Powers (Gabriel Byrne) and Julian Messenger (Ben Kingsley) use dirty tricks--including blackmail and lewd disclosures to a tabloid TV show--to undermine each other's efforts. Unable to solve their problem during a meeting
in the desert, their war gets personal: Messenger's son and grandson are slammed with sex-assault raps and Powers' wife Ariel (Mimi Rogers) is revealed publicly to be a transsexual male prostitute; Messenger even threatens to disclose informa...
Released:
1997
Rated:
R
Length:
103 mins