13 Movies That Depressingly Predicted The Future
3. The Clinton-Lewinsky Scandal - Wag The Dog
In a staggering feat of life imitating art that's both hilarious and depressing, Barry Levinson's political satire revolves around a Presidential sex scandal and the efforts of a spin doctor (Robert De Niro) to create a staged, diversionary war with the help of a movie producer (Dustin Hoffman).
The movie hit screens in December 1997, less than a month before the infamous President Clinton-Monica Lewinsky sex scandal broke out. The kicker? Some three days after Clinton finally admitted an inappropriate relationship with Lewinsky in August of 1998, he ordered the bombing of a Sudanese pharmaceutical factory believed to be manufacturing nerve gas.
As it turned out, the evidence was unreliable and no substantial tie to nerve gas was ever made, furthering the belief that Clinton hastily ordered the bombing in order to deflect from his own scandal back home.
How shocking for a movie to paint a heightened political picture under the guise of satire, only for it to largely play out in reality the very next year.