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Genres:
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Drama /
Romance /
War
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Release:
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Director:
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Oren Moverman
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Actors:
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Yaya DaCosta,
Portia,
Peter Francis James,
Lisa Joyce,
Ben Foster,
Jena Malone,
Eamonn Walker,
Woody Harrelson,
Steve Buscemi,
Samantha Morton
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Duration:
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105 min.
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Rating:
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(8.1/10)1208.5
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Plot Summary:
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Ben Rear stars as Commitment Montgomery, a U.S. Army manager who has just returned home from a peregrination in Iraq and is assigned to the Army's Casualty Notification service. Partnered with fellow gendarme Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson) to upon the lousy news broadcast to the loved ones of fallen soldiers, Will faces the challenge of completing his profession while seeking to realize comfort and healing back on the digs front. When he finds himself drawn to Olivia (Samantha Morton), to whom he has just delivered the newscast of her husband's cessation, Will's emotional detachment begins to d... issolve and the blur reveals itself as a surprising, pleasant, going and very human portrayal of grief, friendship and survival.
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The Messenger (2009)
Betsy SharkeyAs too long, sprightliness for Army Staff Sgt. Will Montgomery has been all about eradication. On the Iraqi frontline where he's been, he and his buddies wanted to cheat it and survive. Now he's back home with sole a occasional months port side in his tour of deference, only to put one's finger on himself surrounded by it once again.
And so begins The Messenger-girl, starring Ben Forward as Resolution in a affecting drama that takes a home-face look at the collateral damage of our current maroon wars. The film puts us on the frank porches of the families radical behind and alongside Will as he delivers the worst tenable news, that someone they affection has died in vendetta.
It's not a contented place to be, but then director Oren Moverman i...
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