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Genres:
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Crime /
Drama /
Mystery /
Thriller
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Director:
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Paul Haggis
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Actors:
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Tommy Lee Jones,
Charlize Theron,
Wayne Duvall,
Wes Chatham,
Jake McLaughlin,
Victor Wolf,
Jason Patric,
Susan Sarandon,
James Franco,
Barry Corbin,
Josh Brolin,
Frances Fisher,
Mehcad Brooks,
Jonathan Tucker,
Brent Briscoe
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Duration:
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121 min.
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Rating:
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(7.5/10)93.5
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Plot Summary:
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When Hank Deerfield is told by means of the military that his son Mike, who only recently returned from a voyage of chore in Iraq, has gone AWOL he travels to the military base to look to if he can rob any perceive of the young inhibit's disappearance. Hank is himself a retired military investigator and is frustrated by both the military and the civilian watch's outward lack of interest in the . In the end he does direct to break out help from Det. Emily Sanders and together they destroyed together the events that led to Mike's disappearance. In the end, this is a story of how war dehumanizes... individuals to the point where the intriguing of life makes no sense and has no purpose
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Excellent film
Holds the attention well for two hours - a story of a former army man who has already lost one son and now loses another, and seeks to uncover the truth while the army tries to stop him. Tommy Lee Jones very good in the role, and Charlize Theron plays the police officer with great restraint. Also notable for showing a slice of real America, not glamorised at all. Film strikes a good balance between mysetery and anti-war, not too obviously polemical but makes audience questioning what Iraq is doing to ordinary soldiers. I enoyed it a lot, and a shame there were 95% empty seats in the cinema
UTTER TRIPE
Don't lose two hours watching this complete boring rubbish movie. Go out and wash you car as you will get more satisfaction.
In the Valley of Elah
Robert KoehlerThe Iraq war has proven as nettlesome to Hollywood moviemakers as it has to Washington policymakers, and In the Valley of Elah continues the trend. Working overtime to be an important statement on domestic dissatisfaction with the war and the special price paid by vets and their families, Paul Haggis' follow-up to Crash is too self-serious to work as a straight-ahead whodunit and too lacking in imagination to realize its art-film aspirations. Lightning probably won't strike twice for Haggis, with prestigious fall festival premieres unlikely to translate into strong domestic cash flow for Warner Independent, though foreign returns could be brighter.
At its heart, Elah's storytelling (inspired from a true story first reported by Mark Boal in Playboy) ...
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