The Messenger R
The Scars of War Will Last Forever
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 52 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 18, 2010
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: Oscilloscope
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Steve Buscemi, Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Samantha Morton, Jena Malone & Eamonn Walker | |
Directed by | Oren Moverman | |
Screenwriting by | Oren Moverman & Alessandro Camon | |
Composition by | Nathan Larson | |
Director of Photography: | Bobby Bukowski |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
Stumbles a little, loosening its grip in the bromantic final stretch. But if impenitent heartstring pluckage is what you're after, this is where it's at.
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Little White Lies
Mr. Harrelson, using his natural affability as a mask for his character's pain and insecurity, has never been better.
New York Times
Rating: 3.5/4 --
One of the most powerful and humane war dramas to spring from this current conflict.
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From the Front Row
3.5 stars out of 4 -- [Harrelson] once agains shows his skills as a superb dramatic actor....His full-out emotional range here ranks as a career pinnacle.
Rolling Stone
Foster, arrestingly implosive, plays Will as quietly undone by his war ememories....Harrelson gives Tony and electric dark-hearted vitality and rage. -- Grade: B+
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 4/5 --
The Oscar-nominated script pursues a grimly honourable task into its grim and not always honourable byways.
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Financial Times
3.5 stars out of 4 -- This is a writer's picture, no less than a visual experience that approaches its subject as tactfully as the messengers do.
Chicago Sun-Times
Product Description:
An Iraq War veteran who just narrowly escaped death in combat struggles with his new post at the Casualty Notification Office while anticipating his upcoming discharge in this military drama starring Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Jena Malone, and Samantha Morton. Will Montgomery (Foster) has spent his fair share of time in army hospitals, and with just three months to go before returning to civilian life, he discovers that his girlfriend back home (Malone) has decided to move on with her life. Crestfallen, Will discovers that his latest hope for a fresh start will be training to work for the Casualty Notification Office under the mentorship of senior officer Tony (Harrelson). As someone who had a close brush with death himself, Will isn't sure that he's the man to tell families that their own loved ones will never be coming home. Thankfully, in between his assignments, Tony offers a sympathetic ear and the two men form a bond that will ultimately help them to readjust to "normal" life. But once you've been in the thick of it, any true hope for a "normal" life after the military is just wishful thinking. Later, Will is drawn to the grieving widow (Morton) of a fallen soldier, a development that forces him to ponder the ethical dilemma of starting a relationship with a woman in such a vulnerable position.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 55,983
- UPC: 896602002180
- Shipping Weight: 0.43/lbs (approx)
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