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film.jpg Directed by Joe Dante Produced by Guy Riedel Written by
Martyn Burke Starring Beau Bridges Phil Hartman James Earl Jones
Denis Leary Joanna Cassidy Dan Hedaya Elizabeth Peña James
Coburn  The Second Civil War is a satirical/comedy film made for
the HBO cable television network and first shown on March 15,
1997.  Directed by Joe Dante, the film is a satire about anti-
immigrant sentiment in the United States.[1]  The film also
stars James Earl Jones, Elizabeth Peña and Denis Leary as
reporters for a CNN like cable network, ("NN"); Phil Hartman as
the U.S. President, James Coburn as his chief political advisor,
and William Schallert as the Secretary of Defense. Brian Keith
portrayed a general in one of his final movie roles.[2]   The
film was shown in theaters in Italy, Portugal, the Netherlands
and France in 1997 and 1998, before being released on videotape.
In Australia, th