Mostly modestly entertaining, but occasionally very funny, and certainly timely when it came out seven years ago, this is a viciously satirical story of a trio of White House 'fixers' and their efforts to draw smokescreens across the US President's alleged sexual assault on a Girl Scout - news that breaks 11 days before an election.

How Bill Clinton could have done with them.

As it is, co-writer David Mamet makes a good case for proving that you can fool some of the people all of the time. Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman and Anne Heche star.