Charlie Wilson's War (2007)

Cast

Tom Hanks
as Charlie Wilson
Emily Blunt
as Jane Liddle
Philip Seymour Hoffman
as Gust Avrakotos
Julia Roberts
as Joanne Herring

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Genres & Description

Action Biography Comedy Drama History

7.1 / 10

In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas who seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, prodded by his major conservative supporter, Houston Socialite Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight the people are suffering in the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. With the help of the maverick CIA agent, Gustav "Gust" Avrakotos, Wilson dedicates his canny political efforts to supply the Afghan mujahideen with the weapons and support to defeat the Soviet Union. However, Charlie Wilson eventually learns that while military victory can be had, there are other consequences and prices to that fight that are ignored to everyone's sorrow.

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FireEyedMaidOfWar

One thing is certain: If the dull-brained Americans were to survive as beasts of prey in the wilderness they would have died out long ago! In Afghanistan they laid a tray for their foes the Marxist Russians, and they did grope in it; but then, not ten years later, the dull-brained Americans attempted to do the same thing under liberal auspices; but the Afghans were supplied by their detractors, China, Persia and Russia, though they do not reveal their secret services’ actions to the public. - @Saturday, March 24, 2012 2:18 AM

ARMORED KONG

This movie totally rocks! My favorite scene is when 3 Mujaheddin using FIM-92 Stinger Missiles to shot down Soviet Communist bastard flying Mi-24/25 Hind. - @Friday, May 28, 2010 3:24 PM