Supposedly based on a true story, [Paul Haggis]' film focuses on Hank Deerfield ([Tommy Lee Jones]), a former military MP whose eldest son died in the military and whose only remaining son, a soldier just back from Iraq, is reported to have disappeared from his unit. Learning this news as the story opens, Deerfield leaves his wife (Susan Sarandon) in their Tennessee home, drives across the country to the base where his son has been stationed and throws himself into the investigation of his boy's disappearance, an effort that understandably ruffles the feathers of the military's investigators as well as a police detective (Charlize Theron) who becomes involved in the case. Considering Haggis' meteoric rise and rather contradictory output to date-he wrote Glint Eastwood's Million Dottar B...
David met Goliath "in the Valley of Elah," Hank Deerfield tells a boy in a bedtime story. Picked up five stones, loaded his slingshot and killed him, Hank says. Good defeated evil, the underdog triumphed and it's a true story, he says.
REVIEW In the Valley of Elah HHH Rated R (violent and disturbing content, language and some sexuality/nudity) Directed by Paul Haggis Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, Susan Sarandon and Jason Patric Marquee Cinemas It's a variant of the phone call every military family dreads. Hank Deerfield (Tommy Lee Jones) learns that his son Mike, just back from Iraq, is missing from his New Mexico base and unless he turns up soon, the Army will have to declare him AWOL.
In the Valley of Elah" is not a war film, though at times it looks like one. It is not a murder mystery, though at times it sounds like one. "In the Valley of Elah" is a national requiem, a tortured dirge for the loss of American innocence and humanity, an anguished lament that we are destroying all that is pure and good in ourselves. You owe it to yourself and your country to endure this film. Hank Deerfield (Tommy Lee Jones) is a Vietnam veteran and retired Army sergeant who now makes a living hauling gravel. He gets a call informing him his son, Mike (Jonathan Tucker), who has just returned from a tour of duty in Iraq without informing his parents, has gone missing. A former military investigator with a keen insight into military bureaucracy, Hank drives to his son's base in New Mex...
With his follow-up to the stirring, Oscar-winning "Crash," writer- director Paul Haggis gives us with "In the Valley of Elah," an indictment of the Iraq war and its effect on the returning troops and their families. Vietnam vet Hank Deerfield (Tommy Lee Jones) teams up with police Detective Emily Sanders (Charlize Theron) to uncover what happened to his son, a soldier who goes AWOL after coming back from Iraq and is later found savagely killed. The performances are strong: Jones perpetuates the stoic, surly persona he's perfected, but there's an undercurrent of aching sadness that makes him more accessible and human than ever before. And Theron, as a no-nonsense investigator who's tired of being underestimated by her male colleagues, is every bit his equal.
**** IN THE VALLEY
...He plays a Vietnam veteran named Hank Deerfield, now hauling gravel in Tennessee. He get...
At the film's outset, Deerfield has already lost one to a helicopter training accident; and when he and his wife (Susan Sarandon) receive word their other son has gone AWOL while back from a tour of duty in Iraq, Deerfield drives out to a New Mexico Army base to untangle the mystery-which soon takes a gruesome turn when his son's body is discovered, hacked and burned beyond recognition, in a field near the base. Based on a Jon Krakauer book with the same title, Scan Penn's into the Wild tells the real-life story of Christopher McCandless, a college kid who, propelled by a mixture of grandiosity and grievance, decided to leave civilization and head out, alone and unaided, as far away as he could get-a tragedy that ended with his death at twenty-four, from starvation, in a remote reach o...
... plays a retired military policeman named Hank Deerfield, whose two sons worshiped him and follow...
OPENING THIS WEEK CHILES THE DEVIL CAME ON HORSEBACK In this documentary, former U.S. Marine Capt. Brian Steidle encounters atrocities as an unarmed African Union monitor of a civil-war cease-fire in Darfur, Sudan. Although the Sudanese government publicly decries violence, Steidle witnessed government-sponsored Janjaweed militia violating the cease-fire -- as well as every code of human conduct. After six months, Steidle, horrified and frustrated by the lack of response to his reports, returns to the U.S. and ultimately takes his photographs to Congress, the United Nations, and the International Criminal Court. This is not a film for the fainthearted -- it includes many images of dead, mutilated people -- but it is an important one. Not rated. 85 minutes. The Screen, Santa Fe. (Pau...
...His latest, a mystery, follows Hank Deerfield (Tommy Lee Jones) as he searches for his...
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...Ostensibly, this is a mystery. When Hank Deerfield's (Tommy Lee Jones) son turns up missing...
The latter two may be about Korean War veterans, but all four movies, examined together, reveal the ambivalence that Americans feel about the Iraq War and the men and women who are fighting it. More than 869,000 Americans have served in Iraq and Afghanistan and have since left the armed forces, and civilians are eager to embrace them as ordinary men and women who have sacrificed for their country. Yet the brutal nature of the Iraq War, with the Abu Ghraib scandal, the Haditha killings, and other violent incidents, has raised questions about the actions of individual soldiers and the consequences of the U.S. involvement in Iraq.
... FILM IN THE VALLEY of Elah, Vietnam veteran Hank Deerfield is driving to an Army post in New Mexico...
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