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...news and insider analysis to fans of Movies, Music, TV and Local Events. Woody Harrelson and Ben Foster star in the intense, heartbroken drama 'The Messenger' When I hear people lump all movies that deal with our modern military into...

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...emotional drama that opens today in Cambridge, we ride shotgun with Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery (Ben Foster) and Captain Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson) as they inform loved ones that their child or significant other has died in battle.

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...I had to be stoned while shooting it." The director also took Foster and Harrelson to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington to meet with wounded vets just back from war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Moverman, an Israeli war vet who...

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...see 'The Messenger' Woody Harrelson, Ben Foster and Samantha Morton star in Oren Moverman's critically hailed and incredibly moving film about the soldiers who work in the Casualty Notification Office, "The Messenger." Foster plays a...

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...political messages." The newly released film "The Messenger" (2009) - focused tightly on two Army Casualty Notification Officers skillfully played by Woody Harrelson and Ben Foster - reflects this incomplete message. Their task is to give...

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...to call him "Sir" and growling lines such as "What's your point?" Capt. Woody, meanwhile, keeps calling Sgt. Ben in the middle of the night to beg him to go skirt-chasing. No-go, guys. Wouldn't happen. Jiggling the camera doesn't make your...

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'The Messenger' Ben Foster and Woody Harrelson lead a strong cast in director Oren Moverman's taut drama about a casualty notification team's struggle to balance duties with private lives. By BETSY SHARKEY, Film Critic For too long, life...

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Movie review: 'The Messenger' starring Ben Foster and Woody Harrelson In modern warfare, which is more powerful: The IED or the NOK? That's the question posed by "The Messenger," a drama about a young army officer assigned to deliver death...

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...basic satanic thriller. San Francisco only. "The Messenger" (R): Ben Foster and Woody Harrelson play Army officers assigned to the unit that delivers news of deceased soldiers to their loved ones. With Samantha Morton. "Planet 51" (PG):...

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