Charlie Wilson's War Page #2

Synopsis: In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas who seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, prodded by his major conservative supporter, Houston Socialite Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight the people are suffering in the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. With the help of the maverick CIA agent, Gustav "Gust" Avrakotos, Wilson dedicates his canny political efforts to supply the Afghan mujahideen with the weapons and support to defeat the Soviet Union. However, Charlie Wilson eventually learns that while military victory can be had, there are other consequences and prices to that fight that are ignored to everyone's sorrow.
Director(s): Mike Nichols
Production: Universal Pictures
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 5 wins & 22 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
69
Rotten Tomatoes:
82%
R
Year:
2007
102 min
$66,636,385
Website
2,442 Views


That said, I love your idea.

- Crys, I'll call you this week.

- Okay.

All right.

Stacey, Kelly, nice to meet you both.

Are you Nevada residents?

- Yeah.

- Well, don't forget to vote.

Bye. We love you!

We love you!

Oh, it helps not to know me.

Oh! That is for you.

- Thank you, sir.

- Thank you.

- Bye!

- Bye, Charlie.

I love Las Vegas!

All right, what else?

That Dairy Queen guy, Larry Liddle,

- is sitting in your office.

- Hey.

Yeah, I told him he could come in.

He wants to talk to you about a creche.

What, a nativity scene with baby Jesus?

Yeah, it's on public property,

and the city's making him move it.

Sh*t. I thought he was just coming in

- to get his picture took, you know?

- Congressman.

- Yeah?

- You're exactly who I need to speak to.

- You have a moment?

- Sure.

- Tip asked me to talk to you.

- Okay.

He wanted me to talk to

you about John Murtha.

- Go ahead.

- The prosecutor's gonna go after him.

Well, they ain't gonna find anything.

John Murtha's as clean as

my mother's kitchen floor.

Yeah, but Tip would like to put you

on the Ethics Committee just the same.

- You're kidding.

- No.

Well, Jesus, Donnelly,

everyone in town knows

I'm on the other side of that issue.

- Ethics?

- Yeah!

Well, the Speaker would like to

put you on the committee anyway.

Okay. Well, if anyone asks what the

hell I'm doing on the Ethics Committee,

we'll just tell them I like

chasing women and drinking whiskey

and the Speaker felt we

were underrepresented.

- One man, one vote.

- Exactly.

Tip's gonna want to return the favor.

- Tuesday, right?

- That is Tuesday, yes.

So if anything comes

up that you'd like me

to speak with him about, please...

Yes.

Yes!

I'd like to be on the Board of

Directors of the Kennedy Center.

- Charlie.

- I'm sorry?

Turns out Congress appoints the Board

of Directors of the Kennedy Center.

It's a great place to take a date,

and I can never afford the tickets.

- Consider it done.

- Excellent.

Go vote.

Another few minutes.

Let's see what's on the wires.

Why can't you wait for

newspapers like everybody else?

'Cause I think it's productive

to know today's news today.

And it makes me one day smarter

than you, which I enjoy as well.

I know you do.

You don't think that's a little crazy?

Pan Am and Eastern are

lowering their fares.

'Cause of Braniff.

What's a little crazy?

Joining the Board of the Kennedy Center

so you can get free tickets

to the Royal Ballet of...

- Hold on.

- What?

AP story out of Kabul.

Uzbekistan?

Afghanistan.

Russia, Afghanistan, Pakistan,

Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia,

Jordan, Israel, Egypt.

Jim Van Wagenen's our

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Aaron Sorkin

Aaron Benjamin Sorkin (born June 9, 1961) is an American screenwriter, producer, and playwright. His works include the Broadway plays A Few Good Men and The Farnsworth Invention; the television series Sports Night, The West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and The Newsroom; and the films A Few Good Men, The American President, Charlie Wilson's War, The Social Network, Moneyball, and Steve Jobs. more…

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