Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

1964 Directed by Stanley Kubrick

The hot-line suspense comedy

After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop the nuclear strike.

Peter Sellers George C. Scott Sterling Hayden Keenan Wynn Slim Pickens Peter Bull James Earl Jones Tracy Reed Jack Creley Frank Berry Robert O'Neill Glenn Beck Roy Stephens Shane Rimmer Hal Galili Paul Tamarin Laurence Herder John McCarthy Gordon Tanner Burnell Tucker Victor Harrington

Alternative Titles

Dr. Strangelove, Dr. Insólito o: Como aprendí a dejar de preocuparme y amar la bomba, Dr. Fantástico, Docteur Folamour, Dr. Divnoláska aneb Jak jsem se naucil nedelat si starosti a mít rád bombu, Telefono rojo volamos hacia moscu?, ¿Teléfono rojo? Volamos hacia Moscú, Tohtori Outolempi eli: Kuinka lakkasin olemasta huolissani ja opin rakastamaan pommia, Docteur Folamour ou : comment j'ai appris à ne plus m'en faire et à aimer la bombe, Dr Folamour, Dr. Folamour, Dr Strangelove, Dr. Strangelove SOS-Πεντάγωνο Καλεί Μόσχα, Il Dottor Stranamore, Il dottor Stranamore, ovvero come imparai a non preoccuparmi e ad amare la bomba, Hakase no ijô na aijô: Matawa watashi wa ikani shite shinpai suru no wo yamete suibaku wo aisuru you ni natta ka, 닥터 스트레인지러브, Dr. Insólito, Dr. Vreemdelust of: Hoe Ik Mijn Twijfel Overwon en de Bom Leerde Liefhebben, Dr. Strangelove eller: Hvordan jeg lærte å stoppe med å bekymre meg og å elske bomben, Doutor Estranhoamor, Доктор Стрейнджлав, или Как я научился не волноваться и полюбил атомную бомбу, Garip Doktor, 奇愛博士, Доктор Стрейнджлав, або Як я перестав хвилюватись i полюбив бомбу, Dr. Strangelove or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb

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Review by Lucy ★★★★½ 7

“i'm sorry too, dimitri. i’m very sorry. all right, you're sorrier than i am! but i am sorry as well. i am as sorry as you are dimitri, don't say that you're more sorry than i am because i'm capable of being just as sorry as you are! so we’re both sorry, alright?”
Review by Rida ★★★ 84

The inevitable has occurred: I've watched a hugely popular and acclaimed film and come away scratching my head, wondering what on earth is so special about it. But don't revoke my Letterboxd membership just yet: do me the favor of hearing me out first.
Dr Strangelove is obviously a sacred cow in film circles, and I can see why. It's often hilarious, sometimes visually striking, and full of excellent performances and dialogue. It's a funny film about a thoroughly unfunny situation. It's a perfect satire, really. But it left me completely cold.
Perhaps that's because I'm eighteen and therefore my memory (or even my parents' memories) doesn't extend back to a time when nuclear annihilation seemed almost imminent, and my…
Review by maria ★★★★ 5

i want the "gentlemen, you can't fight in here. this is the war room!" line tattooed on my body immediately
Review by demi adejuyigbe ★★★★★ 7

Absolutely outstanding farce. Like a slow-motion screwball. George C. Scott and his faces absolutely run away with this thing. Was about to say Peter Sellers was doing incredible work as Mandrake and I didn’t even realize he was also playing the President & Dr. Strangelove. What a master. I’m the first to say this movie is terrific. What’s dumber than this? Just guys being dudes.
Review by James (Schaffrillas) ★★★★½ 8

The sexual tension between President Muffley and Premier Dimitri tho
Review by Karsten Runquist ★★★★ 4

great cinematography, great performances, and very funny. i think i was supposed to love this more and i probably will someday, just not now.
Review by CinemaClown ★★★½ 20

Despite being one of the finest examples of genre-filmmaking that's neatly crafted, intelligently scripted & brilliantly acted, Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove is a film that I admire more than I love. I've no hesitation in calling it the ultimate black comedy or the perfect satire but I also won't deny that my experience with it was rather ordinary, regardless of the few laughs in between.
Set during the Cold War era, the story of Dr. Stangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb concerns a paranoid Air Force General who green lights a nuclear attack on Soviet Union without the knowledge of his superiors, thus causing mass panic in the Pentagon War Room where the President, his…
Review by Aaron ★★★★★ 9

“Mr. President, I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than 10 to 20 million killed, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks.”
Laughter is such a strange thing. We laugh because we’re happy. We laugh because we find something amusing. We laugh to displace our discomfort. We laugh because otherwise we might cry. We laugh because we don’t know how else to react. Same response, so many different triggers. The past decade has seen those non-traditional triggers frequently exploited by “cringe comedies” like Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Office; laughing at uncomfortable or sad situations has become all the rage. But it’s one thing to laugh at the absurdity of a politically incorrect…
Review by mia ★★★★ 1

mandrake: oh please jack give me the code, we have to stop those boys!
jack: oH pLeAsE jAcK gIvE mE tHe CoDe We HaVe To StOp ThOsE bOyS
Review by katie ★★★★ 4

Peter Sellers was a dilf
Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★★ 6

Dr. Strangelove is an awful movie...
...is what someone should say to me if they want a quick jab to the throat.
Review by brendan o'hare ★★★★ 1

In 7th grade science I had to do a group project on nuclear winter and we ended our presentation by playing a video we'd found on YouTube that showed the effects of nuclear winter set to Gary Jules's "Mad World." The video made my teacher cry and we got a 105 out of a possible 100 points

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Review by jess ★★★★★

kubrick’s best dont @ me
Review by cwg98 ★★★★

“You’ll have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.”
Review by Rodriguez

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Review by Randall Colburn ★★★★★

It’s Dr. Strangelove. It’s perfect.
Review by Jack Gryzzly ★½

29/100
This movie made me chuckle a couple times but that was it. If this movie has made me feel strongly about anything it's that Kubrick diehards and film critics alike will insist you watch this movie, and other Kubrick movies as well, then wonder why you came out of the viewing thinking it was just a mediocre movie. Every time I watch another Kubrick film I think it's going to turn me around on him but that has yet to happen. I just go deeper into the thought that people lie about how a movie made them feel and just like to shove regurgitated film critic jargon down other people's throat because they have no basis for their own opinion.
Review by bruhbruh_22 ★★★★

One of the smartest comedies I’ve ever seen. Incredible attention to detail, especially with the visual gags.
This movie is as relevant today as it was when it was made.
Review by WhyIsItOnFire ★★★★

I know how highly people talk of Stanley Kubrick’s work, but I won’t lie; when I spontaneously chose to watch this, I didn’t go into this movie with the highest of expectations. I certainly thought the movie had its fair share of jokes that went on too long, but truthfully, I was surprised at not only how funny, but how terrifying this movie ended up being.
Most movies I’ve seen from decades prior felt like a slog to get through, so I was pleasantly surprised by how well paced this film was, at least until the end. Even so, the last half hour of this film put a big pit in my stomach, even as I laughed at its wit…
Review by TheDaveVidja

Fantastic!
Review by RashyDashy ★★★½

I definitely expected to like this more
Review by Parth Marathe ★★★★½ 1

“Gentlemen, You Can't Fight In Here! This is The War Room!”
Peter Sellers may have been a messed up person, but damn if he isn’t great here. Great fucking movie.
Review by fedecasazza ★★★★½

El tipo te hace Lolita pero dos años después esto y después 2001 viste como es.
PD: el elenco es perfecto y Peter Selers kjjjjjjjj demente
Review by Carlos Alvarez ★★★★½

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

They really let a dude named Jack Ripper join the military and didn’t expect him to cause the end of the world
There’s a certain point of no return here when Ripper shoots himself and the cut after is truly menacing. Like I think the cut can be used for impact and I’ve seen it comedically but how fast you have to interpret and deal with the fact that the code isn’t ever going to be retrieved is just such a good choice. This is way funnier than I remember it though and the war room scene where the president is asking all the questions is just so great. What an ending too.