The Messenger Trailer Starring Woody Harrelson and Ben Foster
With all the critical acclaim and Oscar buzz surrounding Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker, it begs the question: are audiences finally ready to embrace movies about the war in Iraq? Oren Moverman’s The Messenger looks like the next movie to put that theory to the test, but unlike The Hurt Locker, it’s another intimate drama that deals more with the people back home than the soldiers in the line of fire.
The movie stars Woody Harrelson and Ben Foster as two officers who work for the Casualty Notification Office in the U.S. military (ie. the people who notify the next of kin when someone is killed in action). When one of them becomes romantically involved with a fallen soldier’s widow (Samantha Morton), things get… complicated. This is Moverman’s directorial debut, but one of his previous credits was co-writer for Todd Haynes’ I’m Not There. I can’t say the trailer really hints at anything groundbreaking or mind-blowing, but based on the strong cast and a very straightforward premise, I’m pretty sure this will be a solid flick. The Messenger hits select theatres on Nov. 13th; check out the trailer after the jump or watch it in HD over at Apple.com.
Comments (4)
Ben Foster’s a bad ass actor. Looks like a pretty touching flick.
Posted by Derek on October 8th, 2009I do like Ben Foster.
Posted by pcch7 on October 8th, 2009Jesus Christ. That is not what beg the question means.
Look it up.
Posted by argumentative fallacies on October 8th, 2009Well what do you know… you learn something new every day.
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