Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller Countries: USA Actors: Tommy Lee Jones Hank Deerfield Charlize Theron Det. Emily Sanders Jason Patric Lt. Kirklander Susan Sarandon Joan Deerfield James Franco Sgt. Dan Carnelli Barry Corbin Arnold Bickman Josh Brolin Chief Buchwald Frances Fisher Evie Wes Chatham Corporal Steve Penning Jake McLaughlin Spc. Gordon Bonner Mehcad Brooks Spc. Ennis Long Jonathan Tucker Mike Deerfield Wayne Duvall Detective Nugent Victor Wolf Private Robert Ortiez Brent Briscoe Detective Hodge Directors: Paul Haggis IMDB Rating: 7.5 out of 10 (16354 votes)

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In Monroe, Tennessee, Hank Deerfield, an aging warrior, gets a call that his son, just back from 18 months’ fighting in Iraq, is missing from his base. Hank drives to Fort Rudd, New Mexico, to search. Within a day, the charred and dismembered body of his son is found on the outskirts of town. Deerfield pushes himself into the investigation, marked by jurisdictional antagonism between the Army and local police. Working mostly with a new detective, Emily Sanders, Hank seems to close in on what happened. Major smuggling? A drug deal gone awry? Credit card slips, some photographs, and video clips from Iraq may hold the key. If Hank gets to the truth, what will it tell him? Written by {jhailey@hotmail.com}

When Hank Deerfield is told by the military that his son Mike, who only recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq, has gone AWOL he travels to the military base to see if he can make any sense of the young man’s disappearance. Hank is himself a retired military investigator and is frustrated by both the military and the civilian police’s apparent lack of interest in the case. In the end he does manage to get help from Det. Emily Sanders and together they piece together the events that led to Mike’s disappearance. In the end, this is a story of how war dehumanizes individuals to the point where the taking of life makes no sense and has no purpose Written by garykmcd

In 2004, in Munro, Tennessee, the former Sergeant and owner of a tow truck Hank Deerfield tries to contact his son Mike in Fort Rudd after a period serving in Iraq. However, he is informed that his son is missing in the base and has become Absent Without Official Leave (AWOL). Hank drives to the base to search his son and after an interview with the military staff, he is not convinced of the answers; then he goes to the police precinct telling that Mike is a missing person. However, the jurisdictional conflict between the Army and the police associated to a lack of interest in the case leaves Hank in limbo. Detective Emily Sanders feels sympathy for Hank and together they investigated and discover dirty little secrets with an impressive case of dehumanization caused by the invasion and consequent war in Iraq. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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