# Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

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**Runtime**: 95 min
**Genres**: Comedy, War
**Directed by**: Stanley Kubrick
**Written by**: Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George
**Starring**: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, Peter Bull

> *The hot-line suspense comedy.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

War room, late night, red phones ringing. 
A deranged general initiates a nuclear strike, politicians scramble to recall the bombers. 
Kubrick's darkest comedy remains a sharp Cold War commentary.

**Mood tags**: cerebral, pitch-black, unhinged

**Critic & audience scores**: IMDb 8.3/10 (549187 users) · Rotten Tomatoes 98% · Metacritic 97/100

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