In the Valley of Elah (Combo HD DVD and Standard DVD) [HD DVD]
by Paul Haggis
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Actor: Charlize Theron, James Franco, Jason Patric, Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee JonesDirector: Paul Haggis
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 121 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-03-11
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of In the Valley of Elah (Combo HD DVD and Standard DVD) [HD DVD]
Movie Review: War wounds!
Summary: 5 Stars
"In the valley of Elah" is probably the most ambitious project made come true since those days in which "A few good men" .
Irak, 2004 An American soldier is reported as missing, and once it's public fact the slow but progressive investigations will lead to a distorted state of things that reveal there`s something wrong behind stage.
The smart device of these sinister evidences through the cell, the cruelty and depravation of the human being is regarded at these days as simple behavior disorders that need medical attention. I mean the solution nestles around the consequences and not about the causes that provoked them.
On the other hand, we may realize the overlapped angry produced by the presence of this smart female detective who refuses to be a simple functionary and decides to go to the last frontier about the truth in this very unpleasant fact that carves in relief multiple contradictions around the ethic of war and the way is handled into the official reports.
Tommy Lee Jones really made the performance of his lifetime, supported by Charlize Theron in a role that demanded a wide range of emotive frequencies. Susan Sarandon as the inconsolable wife , conscious about the tragedy that represented the presence of her other son in the same conflagration.
Summary of In the Valley of Elah (Combo HD DVD and Standard DVD) [HD DVD]
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 HD Genre: DRAMA/MILITARY & WAR UPC: 085391189961 Manufacturer No: 118996In 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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