Sentences with phrase «gulf war film»

He is one of the «Three Kings» in David O. Russell's Gulf War film alongside George Clooney and Ice Cube.

In 2005, Jamie Foxx landed a role in Jarhead, a Gulf War film that also starred Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard and Chris Cooper.

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This is just a bad film that tried to say something about social injustice, the class differences between the rich and the poor, the unfair loss of welfare programs, the inhibiting cost of health insurance that is falsely being blamed on the government when it is the fault of insurance companies why the rates are so high, the hypocrisies of the Gulf War, and the failure of the media to be more responsive in covering all the political corruption.

The film begins with an old - timer cowboy (Sam Elliott) who narrates the film, establishing the setting (LA during the gulf war) before leading us to the hero, Jeff Lebowski (Bridges), better known as «the Dude.»

Three Kings (David O. Russell, 1999) Armed with invention, flare and an unflinching point of view, indie filmmaker David O. Russell charged into Hollywood and made an absolutely stunning war film — honest and unapologetic in its depiction of the Gulf Wwar film — honest and unapologetic in its depiction of the Gulf WarWar.

Three Kings Year: 1999 Director: David O. Russell Armed with invention, flare and an unflinching point of view, indie filmmaker David O. Russell charged into Hollywood and made an absolutely stunning war film — honest and unapologetic in its depiction of the Gulf Wwar film — honest and unapologetic in its depiction of the Gulf WarWar.

The film takes place in the early days of the second Gulf War when a group of soldiers are stationed in Iraq to repair a bomb - damaged water pumping station.

Making her feature film writing and directing debut, Cherien Dabis has used her family's experiences of hostility during the Gulf War as Palestinian / Jordanian Americans as inspiration for Amreeka (the Arabic name for America).

Making her feature film writing and directing debut, Cherien Dabis has used her family's experiences of hostility during the Gulf War as Palestinian / Jordanian Americans as inspiration for

In 2005's Jarhead, Jake Gyllenhaal plays Anthony Swofford, who is from the Sacramento area, but the film is mostly set on the other side of the planet, where it explores the psychological costs of the Gulf War.

There quickly followed his indie adoption farce «Flirting with Disaster» (1996), and the more mainstream, but no less subversive, Gulf War adventure «Three Kings» (1999)-- and now Russell has turned his mind to no lesser topic than the meaning of life itself, and the result is the relentlessly off - the - wall «I ♥ Huckabees», a deep plunge into the shallow end of existence, and a film whose quirky intelligence establishes him, along with Charlie Kaufman and Paul Thomas Anderson, as one of the most inventive writers working in cinema today.

The first public demo of all this was the famous films in the first Gulf War of bombs dropping down chimneys.