Sentences with phrase «iraq war hero»

Decorated Iraq war hero Sgt. Brandon King (Ryan Phillippe) makes a celebrated return to his small Texas hometown following his tour of duty.

Why He's About to Break Out: Alwyn has the title role in Ang Lee's new drama, which is based on Ben Fountain's best - selling novel about a teenage Iraq war hero.

«Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk» Cast: Kristen Stewart, Chris Tucker, Vin Diesel, Garrett Hedlund Director: Ang Lee Release Date: Nov. 11 What it's about: Based on a novel of the same name, the film follows an Iraq war hero whose victory tour back in the U.S. is interrupted by jarring flashbacks.

Fantastic Four star Kate Mara is set to portray Iraq war hero Megan Leavey in an upcoming biopic for director Gabriela Cowperthwaite, reports Deadline.

The drama about an Iraq War hero on a victory tour of the heartland is meant to be an immersive experience.

Not exact matches

I don't know what fraction of the fallen dead they would regard as «heroes», but whatever it is, it hasn't stopped many of them from opposing the Iraq War or the Afghan Surge.

Iraq War Veteran Justin Anderson is an American hero.

If Britain's heroes were people who lived in sixties terraces, people who don't know all six verses of the national anthem, people who had opposed Apartheid in the 80s, and the Iraq war in the noughties, maybe a society with that kind of a hero would be a decent one?

What It's About: «19 - year - old private Billy Lynn becomes a war hero after a harrowing Iraq battle and is brought home temporarily for a victory tour.

The film is based on Ben Fountain's 2012 novel that tells the story of an Iraq veteran who is hailed as a war hero, but wrangling with disenchantment.

After saving his commanding officer in the Iraq War, Billy Lynn (Joe Alwyn) returns home to a hero's welcome at an NFL game.

Ryan Phillippe stars as Brandon King, a decorated war hero who, upon returning home from his final tour of duty in Iraq, is surprised to discover that he's just been stop - lossed.

It is a story for the ages, and its hero, the ill - fated and deeply neurotic Amir Yamini, who loses his heart to a mysterious woman (the Moon Brow of the title) and his arm in the Iran - Iraq War, might just take his place at the top table of Iranian fiction.

This hilarious first novel is set in 2004, at the height of the Iraq War, and finds a troop of war heroes teaming up with the Dallas Cowboys for one surreal 24 - hour periWar, and finds a troop of war heroes teaming up with the Dallas Cowboys for one surreal 24 - hour periwar heroes teaming up with the Dallas Cowboys for one surreal 24 - hour period.

And in telling the story of these good soldiers, the heroes and the ruined, David Finkel has also produced an eternal tale — not just of the Iraq War, but of all wars, for all time.