In the Valley of Elah From:Tommy Lee Jones , Charlize Theron , Jason Patric , Susan Sarandon , James Franco , Warner Brothers , Paul Haggis , Warner Home Video ,
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0085391176275
Format: AC-3
Format: Closed-captioned
Format: Color
Format: Dolby
Format: Dubbed
Format: DVD-Video
Format: Subtitled
Format: Widescreen
Format: NTSC
Weight: 125 hundredths-pounds
Label: Warner Home Video
Audio Format: Dolby Digital 5.1
Audio Format: Dolby Digital 5.1
Audio Format: Dolby Digital 5.1
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Packaged Height: 60 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 760 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 20 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 540 hundredths-inches
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-02-19
Running Time: 121 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2007-09-28
Product Description:
Mike Deerfield returns to the U.S. after his tour of duty in Iraq and abruptly goes missing. His father Hank a spit-and-polish ex-MP from the Vietnam era goes looking for him. What he finds goes to the heart of American combat experiences in the Iraqi conflict. Academy Award?-winning* Crash filmmaker Paul Haggis teams with Oscar?- winning* actors Tommy Lee Jones Charlize Theron and Susan Sarandon in a probing powerful fact-based look at fathers and sons?and at a nation and the young soldiers it sends into battle. Jones plays Hank whose quest lays bare a tangled web of cover-up murder mystery and profound revelation about the personal costs of war.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/MILITARY & WAR UPC: 085391176275 Manufacturer No: 117627
Customer Reviews:
2 of 5 customers found the following review helpful:
 Another Piece of Fiction Claiming to Be Based on True Events, 2008-08-26
As soon as I saw the, "Based on True Events" disclaimer at the beginning of the film, I immediately became suspicious that the film would use dramatic license too liberally.
And it did. Yes, some soldiers murdered another soldier. Yes, they tried to burn the remains. But that's where the similarities end.
This is just another despicable, "The war is making baby killers out of our boys" film that exploits a true life tragedy to advance anti-war sentiment...and dishonors the other brave men and women who did serve honorably in Iraq.
Everything else depicted in the film did not happen--no cell phone with graphic videos of events in Iraq, no father doing his own detective work, no fried chicken after the murder, no brother who also got killed in Iraq, no assisting female detective, no sexist pig detectives, no suicide, no stonewalling military police, no city police unwilling to investigate...
One word sums this movie up perfectly--fraud. If it were just a work of fiction, fine. But instead it tries to dupe the audience into thinking it's real by claiming it's based on true events.
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