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Certificate TBC
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U.S. Army Officer Will Montgomery has just returned home from a tour in Iraq and is assigned to the Army's Casualty Notification service. Partnered with fellow officer Tony Stone to bear the bad news to the loved ones of fallen soldiers, Will faces the challenge of completing his mission while seeking to find comfort and .. Read more

Starring Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Samantha Morton, Jena Malone
Director Oren Moverman
Genres Drama, Romance

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The Messenger

U.S. Army Officer Will Montgomery has just returned home from a tour in Iraq and is assigned to the Army's Casualty Notification service. Partnered with fellow officer Tony Stone to bear the bad news to the loved ones of fallen soldiers, Will faces the challenge of completing his mission while seeking to find comfort and healing back on the home front. When he finds himself drawn to Olivia, to whom he has just delivered the news of her husband's death, Will's emotional detachment begins to dissolve and the film reveals itself as a surprising, humorous, moving and very human portrait of grief, friendship and survival.

Starring Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Samantha Morton, Jena Malone, Eamonn Walker, Peter Friedman, Gaius Charles, Halley Feiffer, Merritt Wever, Jeremy Strong
Director Oren Moverman
Run time DVD: 1 hr 45 mins
Certificate Certificate TBC
Genres Drama, Romance
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: not available
Format DVD

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  • 4 stars out of

    Youve watched these scenes before, awful in their heartbreak, most memorably in Saving Private Ryan: Steven... read more on Time Out

    • Joshua Rothkopf, 
    • Time Out
    • Posted 13 Nov 2009

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      U.S. Army Officer Will Montgomery has just returned home from a tour in Iraq and is assigned to the Army's Casualty Notification service. Partnered with fellow officer Tony Stone to bear the bad news to the loved ones of fallen soldiers, Will faces the challenge of completing his mission while ...