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Synopsis: A reporter, trying to lose himself in the romance of war after his marriage fails, gets more than he bargains for when he meets a special forces agent who reveals the existence of a secret, psychic military unit whose goal is to end war as we know it. The founder of the unit has gone missing and the trail leads to another psychic soldier who has distorted the mission to serve his own ends.

Genre: Comedy, War

Director(s): Grant Heslov

Actors: George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey

Production: Overture Films

1 win & 1 nomination.


IMDB:: 6.2
Metacritic:: 54
Rotten Tomatoes:: 51%

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: R
Year:: 2009
: 94 min
: $32,400,000
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from the physical to energy.
Solid objects seem to pass
right through you.
That starts with a breathing exercise.
Then you think black.
That's the nothingness. Got it?
I don't know what the...
Can I be honest with you, Lyn?
I don't know what to make of this.
I don't know what to say.
This is amazing stuff.
I wanna...
- Could I write a story about this?
- Not gonna happen.
Because, I've been looking
for a story, Lyn.
And I was gonna write
about the re-build contracts...
...but this is much better.
This is much better.
- Not gonna happen.
- All I'm saying is we could meet tomorrow
I'm shipping out tomorrow.
- What? You're going home?
- Going to Iraq.
I've been thinking about partnering
with a factory in Al Qaim.
- I could come.
- What?
- I could come, maybe...
- Look, I don't want to be a story.
- I don't need the attention.
- Look, we could change names, stuff...
Look! There's a war over there, Bob!
Do you understand that?
War!
Now, I don't have to be
looking out for you.
You... you wouldn't have...
I'll look after myself.
I've been in some pretty hairy situations.
I'm a journalist, Lyn.
You understand?
A journalist.
I go where the story is.
What is this?
Nothing. I was just doodling.
What's the matter?
Nothing.
The U.S Army doesn't really have
any serious alternative...
...than to be wonderful!
This does not represent
the official position...
...of the United States Army
at this time.
Bill Django.
Who's Bill Django?
The man who wrote that book.
He said it all started when he
fell out of a helicopter in Vietnam.
Move out!
Go! Go! Go!
Go! Go!
Move!
Move it! Move it!
F*** you motherf***er!
- Hey, knock it off!
- Hold your fire!
Chris! Knock it off!
Will you knock it off?
Jesus!
- Medic!
- You'll be alright.
Alright!
What are you waiting for?
What the f***!
Why isn't anyone firing?
Fire!
Every single one of Bill's men
fired high.
They instinctively hadn't wanted
to shoot another person.
Later Bill would come across a study,
which revealed that...
...only 15-20 percent of fresh soldiers
shot to kill.
The rest aimed high,
didn't fire at all,
...or pretended to be
busy doing something else.
I got you, sir.
Stay with me, alright?
I got you.
Hang in there.
Their gentleness...
...is their strength.
While recovering in the hospital,
Bill wrote to the
Vice Chief of Staff for the Army,
explaining that he wanted to go on
a fact-finding mission...
...to explore
alternative combat tactics.
The Pentagon agreed to pay
his salary and expenses.
What Bill hadn't told the Pentagon
...was that he was really looking for
the answer to his vision.

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Peter Straughan

Peter Straughan (born 1968) is a playwright and author, based in the north-east of England. He was writer-in-residence at Newcastle's Live Theatre Company. Whilst there, Live staged his plays, Bones and Noir. Both of these plays have displayed Straughan's talent for writing dark, twisted and witty stories. His first ambition was to be a professional musician and he achieved this while playing bass guitar with Newcastle-based band "The Honest Johns". He spent four years touring and recording with the band through the late 1980s and into the early 1990s before leaving to take up full-time education at Newcastle University. While Peter was a student he was also a member of the band Cactusman. Peter wrote the song "Killer", which appeared on the CD album North of London, a collection of music by North East bands released through Newcastle Arts. Straughan co-wrote the 2006 feature film, Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution and adapted Toby Young's memoir How to Lose Friends & Alienate People. He is the writer of the 2009 film, The Men Who Stare at Goats, and co-writer of the 2011 film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay, a screenplay he wrote in collaboration with his late wife Bridget O'Connor. O'Connor died of cancer, aged 49, in 2010, before the film was released. They were awarded a BAFTA for Best Adapted Screenplay. more…

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