How to Stage a ‘Coup!’
A still from Coup!, a zippy romp that’s out August 2. (Greenwich Entertainment)
A new film set during the 1918 Spanish flu pits one man’s political ambitions against another’s class consciousness.
If your politics are right, are you allowed to do something wrong?
That’s one of the questions threading Coup!, a new comedy of class hypocrisy opening in theaters August 2. A zippy romp that earns each of its tight ninety minutes on-screen, it takes place on an island off the East Coast—think Martha’s Vineyard—during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. In t…
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