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War Machine
Why this pick
Like Buffalo Soldiers, it finds corrosive military absurdity in an institution running on ego, deception and bureaucracy, balancing deadpan comedy with mounting consequences.
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MOVIE2001 1h 38m GBR
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Why this pick
A dry, eccentric military satire with deluded authority figures and secretive schemes, sharing Buffalo Soldiers’ taste for institutional madness played with a straight face.
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The Informant!
Why this pick
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
It is almost the end of the Cold War in Europe. Specialist Ray Elwood is a U.S. Army soldier stationed in Stuttgart, West Germany, in 1989. He devotes much of his time to dealing on the black market and cooking heroin for a group of drug-dealing Military Police Corps (United States) led by the sadistic Sergeant Saad. As a supply specialist, Elwood poses as a model soldier and friendly confidant to his amiable commanding officer, Colonel Berman. Berman has no idea what supplies his subordinate is requisitioning or that Elwood is sleeping with his wife. But things change when a new First Sergeant, Robert E. Lee joins Elwood's supply company. The new Top is both menacing and savvy, quickly assessing that Elwood and his squad are engaged in graft.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Ed Harris
Colonel Berman
Scott Glenn
Sergeant Lee
Elizabeth McGovern
Mrs. Berman
Leon
Stoney
Shiek Mahmud-Bey
Sergeant Saad
Amani Gethers
Kirschfield
Tom Ellis
Squash
Haluk Bilginer
The Turk