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Messenger (Motion picture : 2009)

Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson and Samantha Morton star in this drama set in the wake of the Iraq war. Three months before he is due to leave the army, injured officer Will Montgomery (Foster) is sent back to the US, where he is partnered with embittered older soldier Lieutenant Anthony Stone (Harrelson) to act as a messenger for the Casualty Notification Team, informing next-of-kin about the soldiers who died in Iraq. Untrained and emotionally ill-equipped for the job, Will struggles with being the bearer of bad news to devastated.

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  • "Messager"@en
  • "亡情使者"
  • "Wang qing shi zhe"@en

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  • "Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson and Samantha Morton star in this drama set in the wake of the Iraq war. Three months before he is due to leave the army, injured officer Will Montgomery (Foster) is sent back to the US, where he is partnered with embittered older soldier Lieutenant Anthony Stone (Harrelson) to act as a messenger for the Casualty Notification Team, informing next-of-kin about the soldiers who died in Iraq. Untrained and emotionally ill-equipped for the job, Will struggles with being the bearer of bad news to devastated."@en
  • "In his most powerful performance to date, Ben Foster stars as Will Montgomery, a U.S. Army officer who has just returned home from a tour in Iraq and is assigned to the Army's Casualty Notification service. Partnered with fellow officer Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson) to bear the bad news to the loved ones of fallen soldiers, Will faces the challenge of completing his mission while seeking to find comfort and healing back on the home front. When he finds himself drawn to Olivia (Samantha Morton), to whom he has just delivered the news of her husband's death, Will's emotional detachment begins to dissolve and the film reveals itself as a surprising, humorous, moving and very human portrait of grief, friendship and survival."@en
  • "Une jeune tête brûlée de l'armée doit réorienter sa carrière militaire suite à une blessure de guerre. Il intègre une cellule méconnue, chargée d'annoncer aux familles la mort des victimes tombées au combat. Formé par un vieux routier de cette discipline, il va découvrir que la mission est en réalité bien plus difficlie que tout ce qu'il a connu au front..."
  • "Partnered with hard-line officer Tony Stone, Sgt. Will Montgomery is a battle-scarred war hero home from Iraq and newly assigned to the Army's Casualty Notification service. He faces this formidable mission while seeking comfort and healing back on the home front when he falls for the wife of a fallen soldier."@en
  • "Partnered with hard-line officer Tony Stone, Sgt. Will Montgomery is a battle-scarred war hero home from Iraq and newly assigned to the Army's Casualty Notification service. He faces this formidable mission while seeking comfort and healing back on the home front when he falls for the wife of a fallen soldier."
  • "Co-written by Oren Moverman and Alessandro Camon, THE MESSENGER is a powerful and tender story about a returned war hero making his first steps toward a normal life.In his first leading role, Foster stars as Will Montgomery, a U.S. Army officer who has just returned home from a tour in Iraq and is assigned to the Army's Casualty Notification service. Partnered with fellow officer Tony Stone (Harrelson) to bear the bad news to the loved ones of fallen soldiers, Will faces the challenge of completing his mission while seeking to find comfort and healing back on the home front. When he finds himself drawn to Olivia (Morton), to whom he has just delivered the news of her husband's death, Will's emotional detachment begins to dissolve and the film reveals itself as a surprising, humorous, moving and very human portrait of grief, friendship and survival.Featuring tour-de-force performances from Foster, Harrelson and Morton, and a brilliant directorial debut by Moverman, THE MESSENGER brings us into the inner lives of these outwardly steely heroes to reveal their fragility with compassion and dignity."@en

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  • "War films"@en
  • "Feature films"@en
  • "Feature films"
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Drama"
  • "Military films"@en
  • "DVD-Video"
  • "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"
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  • "Fiction films"
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  • "The Messenger"@en
  • "THE MESSENGER"@en

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