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The Pentagon Wars
Why this pick
A dry, fact-inspired military satire that finds absurdity in bureaucracy, institutional delusion, and earnest people trapped inside a surreal official system.
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MOVIE2009 1h 33m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In a short prelude, U.S. Army General Hopgood is painfully thwarted in an attempt to pass paranormally through a solid wall by simply running into it. The film then follows ''Ann Arbor, Michigan Daily Telegram'' reporter Bob Wilton, whose wife leaves him for the newspaper's editor. Seeking an escape, Bob flies to Kuwait to report on the Iraq War and to prove to his wife and himself that he is a man. However, he stumbles onto the story of a lifetime when he meets a retired Special Forces (United States Army) operator, Lyn Cassady, who reveals that he was part of a U.S. Army unit training psychic espionage (or "Jedi Warriors") to develop a range of parapsychology skills including invisibility, remote viewing, and phasing. The back story is told mainly through flashback (narrative).
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
George Clooney
Lyn Cassady
Glenn Morshower
Major General Holtz
Tim Griffin
Tim Kootz
Rebecca Mader
Debora Wilton
Brad Grunberg
Ron
Fawad Siddiqui
Kuwait Waiter
Samuel Ray Gates
Journalist #1
McCaleb Burnett
Journalist #2