Great movie for the older members of a family | Charlie Wilson's War (Widescreen)

A droll little "Charlie Wilson's War" | Charlie Wilson's War (Widescreen) | Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts

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	• Charlie Wilson's War (Widescreen) Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts Universal Studios, 2008 average customer review:based on 120 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Its a great story and Phillip Seymour Hoffman is VERY entertaining in it

This would be a 3.5* movie, except that Phillip Seymoour Hoffman absolutely nails his character and has some outstanding dialogue which is just hilarious. My favorite PSH character since Boggie Nights.

Great movie for the older members of a family

Tom Hawks and Julia Roberts do a good job, but I really think Philip Hoffman who is exceptional as the old, crusty, operative. My wife and I bought the DVD for our viewing and watched a couple of times when our son and daughter borrowed it to watch it with their friends. Everyone has really enjoyed it.

A droll little "Charlie Wilson's War"

It's been a long time since I've seen a comedy which doesn't have to depend on toilet or sex jokes to make it funny but instead have great dialogue and an excellent cast in order for it to succeed. This film succeeds in spade due to Aaron Sorkin's(The West Wing, A Few Good Men) witty script and top notch performances from Tom Hanks as Wilson and Phillip Seymour Hoffman in an Oscar-nominated supporting performance as a CIA operative. Julia Roberts is also good as the Texas heiress but all the great lines are delivered by Hanks & Hoffman. If you like your comedy or dramedy with a light, droll touch--check this out!! Ironically it's based on a true story.

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Whose War Is It Really?

If my dear Amazonian, you read no further than this sentence, know this: Charlie Wilson's War starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Tom Hanks, and Julia Roberts (in order of best performances turned in mind you) as real world characters in what was really a war is a good flick...get it, watch it.

This movie, which is a very excellent movie, raises several important questions and issues. The first of which is that Tom Hanks sure looks better with a fuller head of hair than the one he sported in Da Vinci's Code and plays a much better Texas politician run morally playboy amuck trying to oust the Soviets from a little country called Afghanistan than he plays a crazy religious cryptologist that cracks the secrets of King Arthur's chalice or was it Jesus' last supper cup? Either way, Jesus, that Da Vinci code movie was not quite right and this little flick is a highly recommended view. Jesus, go get it now. Well not you Jesus because you'd probably rent the movie from Blockbuster or some place like that, because you know like you save and all, Jesus. But you Amazonian reading this...you're the one who should get this movie. It's good, really it is.

Evidently what I learned from the movie is that there is this real country called Afghanistan somewhere on the other side of the world and wars happen there all the time. The British tried to occupy the place and they got rousted by the tribal locals in a bad bad way. The Soviets also tried to occupy the place and then this religious nut job rich socialite from Houston up and decided Jesus told her to get the Mujahedeen some shoulder launched SAMS to knock those Hinds out of the sky and that was the way God needed to win the cold war. What? That sounds crazy but then so was the cold war and so are religious nut jobs from Texas and now from Pakistan or Saudi or Afghanistan for that matter.

So, evidently Charlie Wilson is from Texas' fifth district, a congressman who largely ran his office and his life like a scene out of Howard Stern's "Private Parts," and got converted to the cause of humanity by viewing a refugee camp in the largely unregulated border area in Pakistan called Waziristan and witnessed the lovely things mines can do. Granted the Soviets were probably a little harsher than most modern armys in the way they conducted their war but war is hell or so they say and yet it goes on day by day. I don't think it would be a spoiler for this movie to tell you that the Soviets eventually got kicked out of Afghanistan and this Houston rich lady was largely responsible. Now those Mujahedeen have re-named themselves the Taliban and Al Qaeda and are doing the same thing they've done for the last 100 years or so, trying to kick a foreign presence out of their country so they can get back to growing poppy fields and keeping their country pristine of roads and pavement and McDonald's and Starbucks. Oh, the tangled webs we weave. Someone should write a book on it, eh?

So Phillip Seymour Hoffman playing a renegade CIA agent is the real treat here. The man is a brilliant actor, let's face it. The scene of how he tries to manage-up with his CIA supervisor is a classic but unless you have really good job security in the place where you work, I'd recommend steering clear of giving your supervisor like feedback.

What are you waiting for? Stop reading this. Stop really. Just click on that helpful vote button because this review was written in an entertaining and informative style and then buy this DVD, you must really. It's the rage and what everyone will be talking about at Janet Reno's next dance party. ...mmw

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Academy Award® winners Tom Hanks Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman star in this compelling and witty film from Oscar®-winning director Mike Nichols and Primetime Emmy®-winning writer Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing). Based on the outrageous true story Charlie Wilson's War shows how one congressman who loved a good time one Houston socialite who loved a good cause and one renegade CIA agent who loved a good fight conspired to bring about the largest covert operation in history.System Requirements:Running Time: 102 minutes Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/BIOGRAPHY Rating: R UPC: 025195004848 Manufacturer No: 61100566

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