Movie: Charlie Wilson’s War (2007)

“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, Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight of the people are suffering in the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. With the help of the maverick CIA agent, 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 had, there are other consequences and prices to that fight that are ignored to everyone’s sorrow. Written by Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)”

  • Director: Mike Nichols
  • Release Date: 21 December 2007 (USA)
  • Run Time: 102 min
  • Country: USA
  • Genre: Biography , Drama
  • MPAA: Rated R for strong language, nudity/sexual content and some drug use.

Tagline: Based on a true story. You think we could make all this up?

Trivia: Charlie Wilson said in a USA Today article that he had no qualms about the film saying, “Anything I might have objected to was provable”.

Goofs: Continuity: When Charlie and Joanne meet for the first time in the film, they tilt their heads to the right as they kiss. In the subsequent shot when they break the kiss, their heads are tilted to the left.

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