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The Men Who Stare at Goats

No goats. No glory.

Allegedly based on some truths, this film takes a look at a secret US army unit that was trained to use psychic powers for military purposes. A journalist investigating the story tries to cover the Iraqi invasion, but is restricted to Kuwait until he accidently hooks up with a star from the secret military program, who takes him under his wing and into Iraq on a covert operation. Reviews have been mixed.

94 minutes, No persons under 16 (Language)
Comedy, War, On the art circuit

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Credits
Cast	George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey, Stephen Lang, Robert Patrick
Director	Grant Heslov
Screenplay	Peter Straughan, from the book by Jon Ronson
Music	Rolfe Kent
Cinematography	Robert Elswit
Editing	Tatiana S. Riegel
Sound formats	Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS
Soundtrack	Not available
Made in	2009
Produced by	BBC Films, Smoke House, Westgate Film Service, Winchester Capital Partners
SA Distributor	Nu Metro

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FPB Report (SA)
Genre	Comedy, drama
Language	Frequent, strong
Nudity	None
Sex	None
Violence	Infrequent, mild
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	None
Comments	None
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ScreenIt Report (USA)
Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross	Guns / Weapons	Profanity

Alcohol / Drugs	Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour	Frightening / Tense Scenes

Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes	Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
International Media
Box Office (USA)Amy Nicholson	18
Chicago Sunday TimesRoger Ebert	18
eye Weekly (Canada)Adam Nayman	10
ScreenIt (USA)C. Fuchs	8
Metacritic.com33 critics	11
RottenTomatoes.com185 critics	11
RottenTomatoes.comTomatometer	10
Internet (IMDB)24817 Netizens	13

Average .. 62%	12

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