Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

UK PG Certificate
In cinemas
May 17, 2019
Buy it from
February 18, 2002
Director
Runtime
1 Hour 35 Minutes
Genre
Comedy, War
Language
English
From Park Circus
mild sex references, language, violence, threat, suicide references

Through a series of military and political accidents, two psychotic generals - U.S. Air Force Commander Jack D. Ripper and Joint Chief of Staff "Buck" Turgidson – trigger an ingenious, irrevocable scheme to attack Russia's strategic targets with nuclear bombs. The brains behind the scheme belong to Dr. Strangelove, a wheelchair-bound nuclear scientist who has bizarre ideas about man's future. The President is helpless to stop the bombers, as is Captain Mandrake, the only man who can stop them...

Last updated
April 16, 2019

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