An urgent desire to take a long shower is an appropriate response to watching The Devil’s Double, so unsavory is the experience of being immersed in the world of Saddam Hussein’s Caligula-like son ...

Have you ever not wanted to see a film, only to leave the theater having witnessed what you believe is an Oscar-worthy performance? Just wait until nominations are announced and you see Dominic Cooper ...

Imagine a nightmare version of “The Godfather” featuring Saddam Hussein instead of the benevolent Mafia kingpin Don Corleone. Then replace Corleone’s driven son and successor, Michael, with the cruel, ...

Plans are afoot for a movie based on the real-life story of the double of Saddam Hussein's son, based on the books by Latif Yahia, the man who was forced to become Uday Hussein's double. By Stuart ...

Dominic Cooper goes positively Pacino in “The Devil’s Double,” a film biography of a real-life Iraqi “Scarface” and the poor sap ordered to be his stand-in. Cooper brilliantly portrays both Odai ...

The Devil’s Double (2011) is a thriller war film directed by Lee Tamahori and written by Michael Thomas. The film follows Latif, an Iraqi soldier, who is compelled to assume the role of the notorious ...

Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein regularly had his bodyguards procure him women for sex and then had his conquests killed when he was through with them. And the Saddam we see on TV may not always be the ...

Briton Dominic Cooper gives what critics are calling a brilliant performance in dual roles of the brutal, sadistic Uday Hussein and his emotionally conflicted body double, Latif Yahia. It's still very ...

While Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's life has been chronicled in detail, his son has commanded less footage. That has changed with the release of The Devil's Double, which visualises in gory detail ...

Hollywood has finally released a feature film that takes place in Iraq but isn’t about the Iraq War. Lee Tamahori’s The Devil’s Double tells the story of Latif Yahia, a young Iraqi officer from a ...

1. What a dream role Dominic Cooper won for himself in "The Devil's Double." Honestly, I don't understand why any young actor in the world wouldn't murder his family to grab this part; it's such a ...

Lee Tamahori’s The Devil’s Double is probably only a three-and-a-half star movie, but it’s pushed into four-star territory thanks to the performances of Dominic Cooper as both Saddam Hussein’s eldest ...