"Backstabbing for Beginners" Movie (2018)

"Backstabbing for Beginners" is a 2018 political thriller film directed by Per Fly.
The starring cast includes Ben Kingsley, Theo James, Belçim Bilgin, Jacqueline Bisset, Rossif Sutherland, Rachel Wilson, Brian Markinson, Daniela Lavender, Aidan Devine, Peshang Rad and others.

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Trailer

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A24 on Thursday, March 22, 2018 released the trailer for "Backstabbing for Beginners" you can watch here:
Backstabbing For Beginners | Official Trailer HD | A24.

Backstabbing For Beginners | Official Trailer HD | A24 | March 22, 2018

Plot summary

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The film follows Michael Sullivan (Theo James), the son of US State Department diplomat who died when Michael was young. Michael leaves a lucrative job at a large bank and lands his dream job as a diplomat with the United Nations (UN), in the fall of 2002. He is assigned to work as an assistant to Under-Secretary-General Costa "Pasha" Passaris, the head of the Oil-for-Food Programme, operated since 1995 to help the citizens of Iraq without allowing the oil sales to boost Saddam Hussein and his regime. On his first visit to Baghdad, local UN chief diplomat Christina Dupre (Jacqueline Bisset) makes it clear to Pasha (Ben Kingsley) that she is disturbed by the corruption in the programme, and plans to publish a report voicing her concerns. This is the first Michael hears of the problem, and over the course of the film he uncovers a major corruption scandal, whereby payoffs and bribes diverted $20 billion of the funds away from food and into the hands of companies, banks, officials of various governments, and officials of the UN itself, possibly including Pasha, so that Hussein can pocket over $1 billion of the funds.
Michael falls in love with Nashim (Belçim Bilgin), a UN worker in Baghdad who reveals aspects of the corruption to Michael, while she covertly works to advance the cause of her own people, the Kurds of northern Iraq. Pasha tries to teach Michael about the realities of diplomacy in a world filled with corruption, highlighting that $60 billion does make it into buying food and medicine for the people of Iraq. As more of the people around him are killed, including Nashim and Dupre, and as the corruption continues even after the programme was de jure terminated in 2003, following the Coalition Invasion of Iraq, a dejected Michael gathers evidence and takes it to The Wall Street Journal.

Cast

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Release date

When is Backstabbing for Beginners movie release date?

"Backstabbing for Beginners" movie release date was scheduled to be on January 18, 2018 (Denmark) and on April 27, 2018 (United States) distributing by A24, DirecTV Cinema, M2 Pictures, Unplugged, EuroVideo, Falcon Films, Mongkol Major, NOS Audiovisuais and Star Entertainment.

Filming

What are Backstabbing for Beginners filming details?

The duration of the film is 104 minutes. The film's budget is $8 million US.

"Backstabbing for Beginners" movie is rated "R", according to the MPAA film rating system.

Rating

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"Backstabbing for Beginners" movie got average rating from critics. IMDB rating is 6.3/10. Rotten Tomatoes rating is 38/100. But the audience kinda likes the film.

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