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Synopsis: Three stories told simultaneous in ninety minutes of real time: a Republican Senator who's a presidential hopeful gives an hour-long interview to a skeptical television reporter, detailing a strategy for victory in Afghanistan; two special forces ambushed on an Afghani ridge await rescue as Taliban forces close in; a poli-sci professor at a California college invites a promising student to re-engage. Decisions press upon the reporter, the student, and the soldiers.
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Director(s): Robert Redford
Production: MGM
  3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
47
Rotten Tomatoes:
27%
R
Year:
2007
92 min
$14,971,658
Website
975 Views


years, please, record you this.

Jodidos will be against

a sh*t like Iraq...

... and the hopeless one

Afghanistan already nuclear Iran.

How many troops will we need then?

I guarantee you that you will request that they return.

Can I speak freely?

You are when implementing

another new strategy...

... without keeping in mind the human cost or the one

financial cost because you predict...

We think deeply of the cost

human to plan this strategy.

What did they estimate, exactly?

What I can say is that this

strategy has patience...

... and determination in their course...

... and it assures that we can in few minutes

to face, to combat and to kill the enemy.

This way, at the end we can go

and to reconstruct that country.

If it delays 10 years to make it,

we will make that it is necessary.

That that...

... be necessary.

That is necessary.

Why did he/she take 3 years to make this?

He are now and constitutionally...

I don't set that he/she has the same one

protection, senator and you know it.

Why the president insists

in spending trillions in...

... submarines and combat airplanes?

Totally useless in this type of...

In what do you believe that I am working?

Why we send 150 thousand troops

to a country that didn't attack us?

Because there is not an alone one

name of somebody...

How many times will you ask the same thing?

Until we have the answer.

Of agreement.

Here he/she goes.

Iraq was almost the first country of the world.

To what does this come?

We take it quick because

we hate that number.

Afghanistan was, it is and it will always be

the definition of the Third World.

They were developed before...

Alejandro became the Great" one.

Do We Take Iraq?

How did I get lost that?

Militarily, we made it.

We made errors.

Colossal errors,

that should never be forgotten.

But 6 years ago, without

to care who had made it,

after seeing our jets

flying toward the buildings,

you remember that petrified that we are

when our enemies made this?

And how everything was in risk,

our families, friends, the children.

Ros and bridges, implant nuclear.

You remind yourself of the color of that place the

following tomorrow that we had not seen before?

The defense didn't work, for that

fear and the mysteries expired.

But the question not

accuse me of denying it,

because I have the answer.

Is it what we make now?

First platoon?

Oh, my God, they are moving.

They are alive.

Of agreement.

- This stone flew.

- Why would that be?

Give me the pilot's number,

I want to send him/her a message.

They said in 18 minutes.

That was 7 minutes ago. I want

to speak now with the pilot.

Mr., the rescatistas is there

out waiting for their words.

The types in Iran, are voluntary.

Is that a question or a statement?

Of agreement, alone a question.

Yes, they are voluntary.

They are of the violent type,

they like the extreme thing, those types...

No, not. They are a type

ordinary of people.

Of what was speaking it was of

the courage, to be panicky,

but to start to yourself

in the next step.

That is anger.

But of the true type.

To what are you him/her afraid, Tob?

Most of people have

fear of not obtaining a work,

or of moving with their parents,

or to study a lot of time.

Yes, that also scares me, Doc.

Or the voice in your head,

that he/she makes you ask como:Estar

exploiting all my talents?

Not I will be wasting

the time in this planet?

I believe that everybody you

he/she asks those same questions.

Many people have

fear of the answers.

You remind yourself of second o'clock or

third lesson that I imparted you?

When I called you to the slate.

You said:
In any side,

that that most of you...

... when they don't want

to be called to speak.

Of course that not you

they feel committed.

But here there is a form

from the one that I can her...

... to see it, it is Colony.

That embarrassed me, he/she asked me

when he/she thought of the reading...

... and me alone I said: I didn't read it.

But you meditated.

Without excuses, without shits, honest.

Alone it was panicky.

But, you overcame

and you took the other step.

Do you remember of what we were speaking?

About what was it the reading?

I am about blocking bad moments.

It was about the panic, of as

he/she makes us open the senses.

They were selling needles

you clean free, for the addicts,

in the class there were people that

they said that it was very good idea,

they said, yes, that would avoid

illnesses and maybe something of the crime,

and your you said...

If we will spend dollars of taxes,

our dollars of taxes,

to help people to violate

the law in a sure way.

Why we don't have a drunk driver

also designated for the highways?

What?

That would not be a problem

for those that use drugs.

And he/she has the same logic exactly.

They are speaking economically.

I am speaking of economy and

I am also speaking of security.

He/she waits one minute, you have just admitted it,

you not even read yourself the article.

I know it, I didn't make it, but

it is some logic...

He/she is right.

I am the boy that doesn't read anything, Doc.

Yes, the boy that one doesn't read

the article and it admits it...

... he/she becomes the center of one of the debates

more interesting of those than I have been part.

To where that boy was?

So you think that...

... the number of troops that we have

in Afghanistan now is enough.

Yes, and a great part that there are not

been able to make more with less in Afghanistan,

he/she is due to the intelligence

precise that have in the area.

It is the pure nature of

our special forces.

They are these boys.

These boys are some professionals.

That reminds me to TO. Bob, in the '68.

- To. Bob?

- Yes, do you remember?

How long does he/she make of that?

Not they could face to those

Vietcom with big fights,

so they sent to small groups for

that they could not resist to ambush us.

At least he/she fought.

it cost that new strategy.

Which is your problem with the evolution?

With platoons again type of

soldiers of special forces,

surgically they opened to the enemy.

But again, those

platoons are small.

Another time, small it is the objective.

To. Bob, you were

seeing History Channel?

No.

The '68 were my first year like reporter,

it was my periodic school.

The Same as Iraq.

Yes.

I never lost for that reason my pleasure.

I am fortunate.

- 1968?

- Yes, you were 6 years old.

He/she already read in the sixth grade.

Not you have to say the

address of the laugh.

to have enough you leave...

... to know to what me

I refer with my words.

The American town needs to understand

that it is not alone our decision...

... to stop these insurgencias,

but it is a moral obligation.

Simply we cannot allow that

form wickedness and terror to spread.

If we specify of these

work military,

we will take this as first step.

First step?

What we have been making in

the past 6 years, senator?

Second World War lasted the same thing.

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Matthew Michael Carnahan

Matthew Michael Carnahan (sometimes credited as Matt Carnahan) is an American screenwriter who wrote the feature film The Kingdom (2007), and the film adaptation of the hit BBC television drama serial State of Play. Carnahan also wrote the screenplay for Lions for Lambs for United Artists. His brother is Joe Carnahan, who wrote and directed Narc (2002), Smokin' Aces (2006) and The A-Team (2010). More recently, he worked on the screenplay for the zombie film World War Z (2013). He wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of Nemesis with his brother Joe Carnahan. more…

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