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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: Blu-ray
Brand: Warner Home Video
EAN: 0085391189978
Feature: 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 Sarando
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Item Dimensions: 25
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageFrenchOriginal LanguageSpanishOriginal LanguageEnglishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchDubbedSpanishDubbed
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: 085391189978
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 19, 2008
Running Time: 121 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Features:- 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 Sarando
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IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH (BR-DVD)
Amazon.com:
In career Army officer Hank Deerfield's worldview, the American military exists to bring order to the world, and honor and dignity to every one of its soldiers. As played by Tommy Lee Jones, in a layered performance that will haunt the viewer long after the film is over, Deerfield wears the Army life like he does his standard-issue white T-shirts--unconsciously making a cheap motel bed with crisp inspection-ready corners. Yet if war is hell, the purgatory for the relatives of damaged soldiers can cause far more anguish, and Paul Haggis' quietly devastating In the Valley of Elah tells this story through Deerfield, who is desperately trying to piece together the fate of his adored son Mike, a soldier in Iraq.
Mike's company has returned from duty, but he is missing; Hank flies from Tennessee to Fort Rudd in the Southwest, to conduct his own investigation into the disappearance. There he meets a smart but put-upon police officer (Charlize Theron, glammed-down but still showing a bit too much sexy collarbone for a cop) who also smells something off in the Army's official story of the disappearance. The two form an unlikely team, but as a friend tells Deerfield early on, "You gotta trust somebody sometime, Hank," and Mike's vanishing is Hank's tipping point.
As Hank pieces together the horrifying story of Mike's fate, the incremental pain becomes etched in Jones' ragged features, and the camera captures all of it--far more powerfully than could a million words of reportage from the front lines. Theron's performance is also strong, and Susan Sarandon is moving if underutilized as Hank's grief-stricken wife, robbed of the simple nuclear family life she so wanted. "They shouldn't send heroes to places like Iraq," says one of Mike's buddies late in the film, and it's the viewers' collective sorrow--and the film's great achievement--to feel that at the deepest human level. --A.T. Hurley
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Rating:  -
I told my officemate about this movie and he rented it from Netflix and also liked it.
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With the fresh spate of suicidal bombings violating the impending election in Iraq, my viewing of Haggis's terrifying, Valley' has added resonance. Yes, so many war films have urged us to outrage, to sense the futility, the heroics, the cruelty, the power plays and their perversions. But not since, 'The Deerhunter', have the chilling consequences of violence been so devastatingly enunciated. It is no surprise that the tale has connexions to an actual event (albeit tenuously, as a lead reviewer notes. ... Read More
Rating:  -
I feel I've seen this movie before, somtime in the 1980s...yes..it starred Tom Cruise as a young JAG defense attorney and Jack Nicholson....only then it was fresh. This is basically the same movie, but replace court room drama and suspense with detective drama and suspense and replace the "code red" stuff with current Iraq themed war time moral debates. The whole thing feels very canned but good acting and some decent suspense make it watchable, but that is all, just watchable not recommendable.
Rating:  -
The description of the true story upon which this disaster was based, I found, was much better than sitting through this over-praised stinkbomb of a movie. "In the Valley of Elah" is essentially Tommy Lee Jones ruining what is a perfectly good role for DeNiro or even Eastwood. He is as flat and sour as he was in "Men In Black". Never did I watch a more robotic performance in my life.
As to the 'brutally honest' part of the critiques I've read, forget it. This film is incredibly insulting ... Read More
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In the Valley of Elah tells a story that will stick in your mind long after you watch it even if you don't agree with the message of the movie. The acting is extremely well done although I do think Susan Sarandon's role could have been beefed up more; I'm one of the people who feel that she was underutilized in this film although her acting was brilliant. The plot moves along at a good pace although things speed up during the last forty-five minutes or so of the film; and that does make things more interesting. ... Read More
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