In The Loop (2009 Armando Ianucci)

Written by Jesse Armstrong (Fresh Meat) & Sam Blackwell (both also Four Lions, Peep Show), Armando Ianucci and Tony Roche (all wrote The Thick Of It). Ripe, juicy dialogue and insults - laugh too much and you'll miss the next joke.

Peter Capaldi, Tom Hollander, Gina McKee, Chris Addison, Mimi Kennedy, Anna Chlumsky, James Gandolfini (loved him using kids' calculator to work out troop availability), Joanna Scanlan. Steve Coogan.

You have to see it to experience how funny Tom Hollander is emerging from his office

The ending is a bit flat.