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The Hurt Locker
Cast
Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, David Morse View AllCrew
Kathryn Bigelow (Director), Mark Boal (Screenplay) View All
Release: Oct. 10th, 2008
Runtime: 2 hours, 11 minutes
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The Hurt Locker
Plot
An intense portrayal of elite soldiers who have one of the most dangerous jobs in the world: disarming bombs in the heat of combat. When a new sergeant, James, takes over a highly trained bomb ...
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The Hurt Locker
The Hurt Locker is pretty darn good, I want to get that out of the way up front. Despite my prior service, I usually avoid military movies given the cliched and message-bound nature of most of them. ...
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Cloers review: The hurt locker
I just saw that there is another review of this movie, but i have already tipped mine up so here's my point of view, also this is my first review
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mark f
The main characters are James (Jeremy Renner) who's the bomb disposal team leader and the one who always seems to go out of his way to do too much to try to get killed; Sanborn (Anthony Mackie), who's the leader's by-the-book backup man and safeguard against the theory that "***** happens"; and Eldridge (Brian Geraghty), a scared young man who's sure that he's not going to make it out of Iraq alive, especially if James has his way.
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This won a slew of Academy Awards for 2010 including: Best Motion Picture Best Achievement in Directing (Kathryn Bigelow who was the first woman director to win) Best Writing, Original Screenplay (the screenwriter, Mark Boal was a journalist who went along with several bomb crews during the Iraq war) Best Achievement in Film Editin.
