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To: yetidog
Valley of Elah: When model soldier Mike Deerfield (Jonathan Tucker) mysteriously goes AWOL, shortly after returning to the U.S. from the front lines in Iraq, his career officer father Hank (Tommy Lee Jones), enlists the aid of police detective Emily Sanders (Charlize Theron) in the search for his son. His wife Joan (Susan Sarandon) also joins them to uncover the truth of his disappearance. Written and directed by Paul Haggis ("Crash").

Let's see.... Haggis and Sarandon? PASS!

Redacted:Haven't heard anything about it other than the director Brian de Palma is strongly oposed to the war. PASS!

Lions for Lambs:Lions for Lambs begins after two determined students at a West Coast University, Arian (Derek Luke) and Ernest (Michael Pena), follow the inspiration of their idealistic professor, Dr. Malley (Robert Redford), and attempt to do something important with their lives. But when the two make the bold decision to join the battle in Afghanistan, Malley is both moved and distraught. Now, as Arian and Ernest fight for survival in the field, they become the string that binds together two disparate stories on opposite sides of America. In California, an anguished Dr. Malley attempts to reach a privileged but disaffected student (Andrew Garfield) who is the very opposite of Arian and Ernest. Meanwhile, in Washington D.C. the charismatic Presidential hopeful, Senator Jasper Irving (Tom Cruise), is about to give a bombshell story to a probing TV journalist (Meryl Streep) that may affect Arian and Ernest's fates.

Let's see.... Redford, who has said some extremely vile things about the President,and the sofa-jumping Cruise....PASS!

2 posted on 09/11/2007 2:04:41 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Rummyfan
Hollywood produces the movies that further the cause of their Democrat idols in election years. The fools who make up their voterbase pay to see them, and the money just keeps on flowin'.....

We are really in a sad state of the Union, folks.....

Treason in wartime, "aiding and abetting", Congressman on foreign soil denouncing American occupation, etc., etc.

6 posted on 09/11/2007 2:14:03 PM PDT by traditional1 ( Fred Thompson-The ONLY electable Republican Candidate)
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To: Rummyfan
Not to defend his movie (which I haven’t seen) but what do you have against Haggis? Crash at least broached some non-PC aspects of racism even if it did so in facile ways.
7 posted on 09/11/2007 2:22:52 PM PDT by Borges
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