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Synopsis: Two-time Academy Award® winner Ang Lee brings his extraordinary vision to Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, based on the widely-acclaimed, bestselling novel. The film is told from the point of view of 19-year-old private Billy Lynn (newcomer Joe Alwyn) who, along with his fellow soldiers in Bravo Squad, becomes a hero after a harrowing Iraq battle and is brought home temporarily for a victory tour. Through flashbacks, culminating at the spectacular halftime show of the Thanksgiving Day football game, the film reveals what really happened to the squad - contrasting the realities of the war with America's perceptions. The film also stars Kristen Stewart, Chris Tucker, Garrett Hedlund, with Vin Diesel, and Steve Martin. Lee used new technology, shooting at an ultra-high frame rate for the first time in film history, to create an immersive digital experience helping him dramatize war in a way never seen before. Lee directed and produced the film, from a screenplay by Jean-Christophe Castell
Genre: Drama, War
Director(s): Ang Lee
Production: Sony Pictures
  2 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Metacritic:
53
Rotten Tomatoes:
45%
R
Year:
2016
113 min
$1,736,708
Website
688 Views


Make yourself at home.

You need anything, you let me know.

I think, uh... I think she likes you.

- Don't you f***ing lie to me.

- Hey. Stand down now,

or I'll have both of you

running laps around the stadium.

- Excuse me.

- Look at all these people.

What do you think they're thinking about?

Oh, heavy stuff.

God. Philosophy.

The meaning of life.

There it is.

You look good.

You are a sh*t liar.

Thank you.

Hey, the doctor said, uh,

and I'm quoting here,

my face is 87% healed.

And check it out.

It's two more operations,

and that is goodbye, Miss Frankenstein.

How about you?

You gettin' any?

None of your business.

Yeah, well, that's a big fat no.

So you've killed for your country

and you're still a virgin.

- If that's not a sign of how f***ed...

- So, how are things here?

Don't change the subject.

You better be out there gettin' some, boy.

Are you?

Um, guess.

Some nights I'm like,

whatever, maybe I'll just go

cruise the high school boys

and be like,

"Hey, bubba, take a ride with me.

"Once you've had a girl

with a scar on her face..."

So, how are things here?

I worry about you.

I can't stop worrying about you.

I feel so responsible.

I'm all right.

Your bad.

Thanks for getting me in this sh*t, Kat.

You know what I mean.

Billy, what the f*** are you doing?

Let's see what this bad boy can do.

I'm not getting an Article 15

because of you.

If they let us Texans all drive,

there'd be no need

for PT belts and safety briefs.

Just 'cause you were conceived in a truck

- doesn't mean you got to die in one.

- Watch this.

- Oh, sh*t.

- It could save your life someday.

- F***! Stop!

- Whoo!

Oh, sh*t!

Private Lynn, you are one delinquent punk!

No excuse, Sergeant.

That is correct, Private Lynn.

There is no excuse for your existence.

You got a long, glorious history

of being a sh*t-bag, don't you?

We heard all about your

criminal butt-fuckery in Texas.

But, Billy,

you're no longer in Texas.

So speak up!

Sergeant Breem, Sergeant Dime,

I'm just bustin' my ass tryin'

to be a credit to my platoon.

What in the world led you to believe

you could join the infantry?

You know, the Army needs

flute players, too.

I want to defend my homeland, Sergeant.

Bullshit. Keep running.

Hunt down terrorists.

Well, let us know when you find them.

Bring democracy to Iraq.

Lynn, your stupidity

is robbing this world of oxygen,

and I won't stand for it!

Get to the pull-up bars.

Private, did I say recover?

I did it for my sister.

Okay, drop.

Your sister?

Continue, Private Lynn.

My sister Kathryn,

sophomore year at college,

was driving home from work.

Heavy rain.

Big Mercedes goes into a spin,

broadsides her.

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Ben Fountain

Ben Fountain (born 1958) is an American fiction writer currently living in Dallas, Texas. He has won many awards including a PEN/Hemingway award for Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories (2007) and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction for his debut novel Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2012). more…

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