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Release Date:
10 October 2008 (Italy)
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Plot:
Iraq. Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb. full summary | full synopsis
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9 wins
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7 nominations
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(578 articles)
Golden Globes 2010 Predictions: Best Picture – Drama
(From Alternative Film Guide. 19 November 2009, 11:51 PM, PST)
Good Morning, Oscar: November 19
(From The Wrap. 19 November 2009, 8:26 AM, PST)
(From Alternative Film Guide. 19 November 2009, 11:51 PM, PST)
Good Morning, Oscar: November 19
(From The Wrap. 19 November 2009, 8:26 AM, PST)
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TIFF 2008: The Hurt Locker - World class war-action cinema
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Jeremy Renner | ... | SSgt. William James |
 | Anthony Mackie | ... | Sgt. JT Sanborn |
 | Brian Geraghty | ... | Spc. Owen Eldridge |
 | Guy Pearce | ... | Sgt. Matt Thompson |
 | Ralph Fiennes | ... | Contractor Team Leader |
 | David Morse | ... | Colonel Reed |
 | Evangeline Lilly | ... | Connie James |
 | Christian Camargo | ... | Col. John Cambridge |
| Suhail Aldabbach | ... | Black Suit Man (as Suhail Al-Dabbach) |
| Christopher Sayegh | ... | Beckham |
| Nabil Koni | ... | Professor Nabil |
| Sam Spruell | ... | Contractor Charlie |
 | Sam Redford | ... | Contractor Jimmy |
| Feisal Sadoun | ... | Contractor Feisal |
| Barrie Rice | ... | Contractor Chris |
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Rated R for war violence and language.
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Runtime:
131 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
USA:R (certificate #45024) |
Ireland:15A |
Canada:13+ (Quebec) |
Canada:14A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Ontario) |
Iceland:16 |
UK:15 |
Germany:16 |
Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) |
Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) |
Singapore:M18 |
Argentina:16 |
Norway:15 |
Portugal:M/16 |
Philippines:R-13 (MTRCB) |
Finland:K-15
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The production couldn't gain access to a U.S. military base in Kuwait, so the whole production was moved to Amman, Jordan.
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Crew or equipment visible: When Sergeant William James enters the "room" where the dead Iraqi boy lies. He walks through the plastic flaps. Using his right hand and then his left hand which holds the gun, to move the flaps. Yet a 3rd hand is seen moving flaps aside in the left bottom corner. But in the next shot it's only Staff Sergeant William James who is in the room. As he yells to his team mates that he has found something. Only then Sergeant JT Sanborn is seen moving the flaps and entering the room after that. Sergeant JT Sanborn and Specialist Owen Eldridge are both wearing gloves. The hand that helped Sergeant William James, doesn't wear any, but does wear a golden bracelet.
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Opening Quote by Chris Hedges:
The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.
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Khyber Pass
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Simply put, action ace Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker" is a near masterpiece of suspense and unrelenting intensity.
Her first film since 2002's "K-19: The Widowmaker," The Hurt Locker is definitely a return to form from the director of probably the greatest (in this man's humble opinion) surfer-action movie of all time "Point Break." The film follows Bravo company, a team of bomb technicians situated right in the heart of the Iraq war's modern IED warfare. Jeremy Renner, mostly known for impressive performances in "S.W.A.T" and "The Assassination of Jesse James," gives his most riveting performance yet as the lead, Staff Sergeant William James, a reckless but brilliant soldier who has taken down almost 850 bombs.
What separates this film from the bulk of mainstream cinema that has tackled the Iraqi situation is that it doesn't simply exist as a political polemic, or even a reminder of the humanitarian horrors that plague the Iraqi people.
Instead, Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal give us a story that transcends politics and can be seen as almost a straight up kick-ass action pic. The film is plotted by increasingly dangerous and fully realized defusion sequences, all of which were shot from beginning to end in single takes with DOP Barry Ackroyd's cameras continuously roving around set in order to create a tense realism that translates well to the screen.
Very elaborate attention to detail and mise-en-scene is in every frame of the pic, with Bigelow choosing to shoot in Jordan and locations being less than 10 KM away from the Iraqi border. And from a searing heat wave ranging up to 49C to actual Iraqi refugees used as extras to impeccable sound design and special guest cameos by Guy Pearce, David Morse and Ralph Fiennes, Bigelow has succeeded in creating an entirely memorable and visceral experience that will surely leave its mark in the pantheon of the very best war spectacles put to film.