George Clooney

Ewan McGregor plays Bob, a naive journalist who longs to cover the Iraq War. He meets Lyn (George Clooney), an oddball vet who tells him about the New Earth Army. They find a secret base in Iraq where a nasty New Earth alumnus (Kevin Spacey)...

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...Mich., in the real world recently lost its daily paper.) He ends up in Iraq, where he finds Lyn Cassady (Clooney), renowned as the most gifted psychic of the secret New Earth Army. Cassady has been known to stare a goat into submission (a...

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...a story. By chance, he encounters oddball Lyn Cassady (George Clooney), who makes outlandish claims about being part of the so-called New Earth Army - an experimental US military unit dedicated to the art of mental warfare. Lyn regales...

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...Wilton (McGregor) waiting in Kuwait for clearance to cross over into Iraq. Biding his time, he encounters Lyn Cassady (Clooney), a man with a strange tale to tell. Cassady says he's a "Jedi warrior" (wink, wink) in the New Earth Army, a...

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...and superpowers to win over enemies - or wipe them out. Django's prize pupil is Lyn Cassady (Clooney), who Wilton accompanies through a series of mishaps on a mission in Iraq. Inspired by real people Ronson encountered, Cassady and...

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...animals to death. Clooney plays a prodigy of this New Age militarism, with Jeff Bridges as his Dude-like mentor, Kevin Spacey as a psychic rival and Ewan McGregor as a reporter uncovering the story amid the war in Iraq. The movie opens with...

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...use paranormal powers to fight with. McGregor plays a reporter who comes across the story of a lifetime when he meets a Special Forces operator, played by Clooney, who claims to possess psychic powers. Directed by Grant Heslov the film was...

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...journalist stranded in Kuwait waiting to get into Iraq. In Kuwait he meets Clooney's Cassady, a former soldier who's about to head into Iraq on a self-described secret mission. With nothing better to do, Wilton manages to tag along, and...

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...goes to Iraq but cannot find a way in. He then meets Lyn Cassady (Clooney), who is on a secret mission to find his mentor (Jeff Bridges) - but that is not necessarily the main aim of the film. The big concept with this movie is that the...

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