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The Messenger

Rating:R (for language and some sexual content/nudity)
Genre:Drama, Romance, War
Release Date:November 13, 2009
Running time:105 minutes
Cast:Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Samantha Morton, Jena Malone, Eamonn Walker
Director:Oren Moverman
Producer:Benjamin Goldhirsh
Writer:Alessandro Camon, Oren Moverman
Distributor:Oscilloscope Pictures

Description: 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.

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