Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Universal
EAN: 0025195004831
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: Universal Studios
Languages: ArabicOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1RussianOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1EnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledFrenchDubbedDolby Digital 5.1SpanishDubbedDolby Digital 5.1
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
MPN: MCAD61100565D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 22, 2008
Running Time: 102 minutes
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 2007

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 08/26/2008 Run time: 102 minutes Rating: R

Amazon.com:
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 scribe Aaron Sorkin. Wilson, played by Tom Hanks (who also produced), is the perfect hero for this kind of tale, because there's nothing perfect or heroic about him: He's a highball-swilling, fanny-pinching gadabout who becomes radicalized on the issue of helping the Afghans against their mighty aggressor. He has help in the form of a right-wing Texas anti-Communist (Julia Roberts) with a genius for raising money, and a sardonic CIA operative (Philip Seymour Hoffman, stealing the show) who lacks all the social skills Wilson has in abundance. Sorkin's syncopated speech is just the ticket for director Mike Nichols, who understands exactly how to keep this kind of political comedy popping (the complicated story comes in at a hair over 90 minutes, amazingly). Some scoundrels are on the right side of the angels, and the movie's Charlie Wilson is one of them. --Robert Horton




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Rating: - How an east Texas congressman made Afghanistan safe for the Taliban
BEWARE SPOILERS!! (and pompous displays of semi-relevant erudition)

Director Mike Nichols is a past master of women's point of view films that go beyond the narrow confines of the "chick flick." Silkwood (1983); Heartburn (1986); Working Girl (1988); and the very fine Postcards from the Edge (1990) come to mind. His first feature was an adaptation of Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor back in 1966. He followed the next year ... Read More

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Rating: - Coherence Left on the Cutting Room Floor?
I'm giving this film three stars only because the people I watched it with were amused by it. Otherwise I'd go lower. It looked to me like a botched job, the sort of film where the script writer, the director, and the producers couldn't get on the same page and so released a compromised product that satisfied nobody. It's odd to read the other reviews here on ammy; many of them grind political axes, but the radical right-wingers accuse the film of being leftist propaganda, while the liberals accuse ... Read More

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Rating: - The best character was not Tom Hanks nor Julia Roberts
Charlie Wilson's war is an enjoyable vehicle for making the point that someone can have a very flawed personal life, but still help humanity. I could tell Tom Hanks had a lot of fun playing the hard drinking, womanizing, Charlie Wilson. However, he didn't seem entirely comfortable in the role, which would have been more convincingly played by Michael Douglas or Jack Nicholson (although granted Nicholson's a bit too old for the role)--someone who is better at playing a womanizing jerk. And the camera ... Read More

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Rating: - worth it
Tom Hanks is the star of the film, and his acting abilities continue to amaze me. He can apparently do it all. The story is pretty good, though keep in mind there's more talking than action, but that's the way it is in the life of a congressman. The movie feels longer than it really is. The women who were working with Tom Hanks are VERY hot! Great movie

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Rating: - This was fun to watch
Watching this helps to give a clue to how some politics are done. In some cases like this, in unconventional ways. The end of the movie is really what strikes a cord - without giving anything away basically how after the Soviets pulled out of Afghanistan the US abandoned them and look what happened 20 years later.

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