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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304618622
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
ISBN: 630461862X
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Release Date: May 05, 1998
Running Time: 97 minutes
Sales Rank: 35842
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: March 15, 1997
Editorial Review:
Description:
What happens when the Governor of Idaho decides to close his state borders to fight a wave of immigrants, but is caught up in a stormy love affair with his fiery Hispanic news reporter mistress? The answer may well be the start of THE SECOND CIVIL WAR.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Funny yet disturbingly realistic look at our future.
A funny, yet all to realistic look at America's immigration policy debacle. With the country over run by millions of recent immigrants, many of which whom can't speak english, the nation heads for an uncertain future. Leading the counter charge against mass immigration is a state governor whose attention is not on the nations problem, but instead on his estranged hispanic reporter mistress.
Rating:  - Unbelievable HBO Movie!!!
Starts off funny, moves to hilarious and end up very disturbing. An incredible stellar cast. Made in 1997 and for a number of years HBO has pretended it never heard of this film and it is not for sale (today) in the HBO store. It was once sold for a very short time on laser disk and vhs. Then it was pulled and denied. Suddenly it has surfaced on dvd. I figure I'd grab a copy on dvd before it disappears again.
Excellent movie - well crafted and definitely not 'politically correct'.
Rating: - Smart sharp political satire
HBO films comes through again with this biting farce on the melting pot that is America. In the "near future", the governor of Idaho (Beau Bridges), a right winger if ever there was one, closes the state borders to prevent a few busloads of orphaned Pakistani children from settling in his home state. Soon the President (Phil Hartman in one of his few effective screen roles) consults with his spin doctor (James Coburn) to decide what to do. Meanwhile, the Idaho governor is carrying on a torrid affair ... Read More
Rating: - Reality as a satire
Public relations should not control a country. Lobbyists should not control a country. Stupid people should not control a country. Joe Dante should make more films. "The Second Civil War" is the most poignant political satire of the nineties, and is a shame that has dissapeared from public scrutiny (no conspiracy theories here!). If some plot points on the film seem to predict facts that happened after 1997, it is because the basis for those occurrences were widely known from before. Basically, ... Read More
Rating: - Welcome to the Human Race.
In the near future, a planeload of immigrant orphans are on their way to a charity facility in Idaho when the Governor of the state closes its borders and refuses them entry. This sparks a division of military forces, between states government's National Guard and federal government's Army, each hell bent on protecting their own version of the American Dream, as well as their media images. At the center of this Constitutional storm is a President unable to make a decision without checking with his advisors ... Read More
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