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Charlie Wilson's War (Widescreen) description Political movies about backroom negotiations need not be dry or heavy-handed, as Charlie Wilson's War delightfully proves. Based on the true story of playboy congressman Wilson's efforts to fund Afghanistan's defense against the Soviet invasion of the 1980s, the film is borne along on breezy attitude and a peppery script by West Wing scr ... review details |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | One of the all-time best movies about Washington. |
| Mike Nichols' "Charlie Wilson's War" features real-life characters and events that seem stranger than the wildest fiction. But that's Washington, D.C., for you. In a way, "Charlie Wilson's War" could almost be considered an American "Schindler's List," recast as a drawing-room (or smoke-filled back room) comedy. Tom Hanks' Wilson, like Oscar Schindler, is a high-living wheeler-dealer; at the beginning of Aaron Sorkin's sharply witty screenplay, he uses his office as U.S. Representative for the Second Congressional District of Texas as an excuse to re-enact "Boogie Nights." But Wilson, like Schindler, also has a social conscience, and soon it is raised in the cause of the oppressed Afghan people fighting a losing battle against Soviet occupation. Before long, Wilson is using his considerable backroom negotiating skills to ensure the Afghans are fighting a winning battle. Wilson is aided and abetted in particular by two people just as unlikely as he: Jo Anne Herring (Julia Roberts), a wealthy right-wing Christian activist who doesn't let her beliefs curtail her enthusiasm for double martinis and consorting (socially and otherwise) with liberal Democrats like Wilson, and Gust Avrakotos (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a schlubby, tart-tongued, but brilliant CIA operative who isn't averse to smashing a few plate-glass windows to get people's attention. Nichols and Sorkin take us on a breathless tour of Washington, Texas, Las Vegas and a large swath of the Middle East, giving us an intimate view of precisely how politics and diplomacy work. (Amazing how much can get done, just by having a belly dancer handy when you need one!) "Charlie Wilson's War" deserves to be ranked with such classics as "Advise and Consent" and "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" as one of the best movies ever made about Washington. | |
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