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| Release Date: |
December 21, 2007 |
| On DVD: |
April 22, 2008 |
| Genre: |
Drama |
| Running Time: |
97 minutes |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for strong language, nudity/sexual content and some drug use. |
| Director: |
Mike Nichols |
| Writer: |
Aaron Sorkin |
| Cast: |
Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Om Puri, Jud Tylor, Nazanin Boniadi |
Based on George Crile's book about the CIA's largest and most successful covert CIA operation, the arming of the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan. The covert ops were engineered by Charlie Wilson (Hanks), a charismatic, wheeler-dealer, liberal Texas congressman who teamed with a rogue CIA operative (Hoffman). The two manipulated Congress, the CIA and a host of foreign governments in order to assist the Afghan rebels in their fight against the Soviets in the 1980s. Many of Read more
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Movie Review
Grade: A-
What happens when you take Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Aaron Sorkin, the creator of "The West Wing", and put them altogether? You get Charlie Wilson's War, an incredibly funny and entertaining drama-comedy about the U.S.'s secret involvement in the Russia-Afghanistan War.
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Charlie Wilsons War
By evey49, May 11, 2008
A very good story that Tom Hanks was born to make. His intenseness is becoming.
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