The true story of how a coke-snorting, womanizing congressman, a renegade CIA operative, and a Jesus-loving Houston socialite joined forces to lead the largest and most successful covert operation in history, contributing to the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. "Fun is this movie's unlikely and persuasive motto. If it's the best politically themed movie to come around in a while, that may be because the director, Mike Nichols, and the screenwriter, Aaron Sorkin, grasp that politics, for all its seriousness, is an essentially comic undertaking. Their film is never glib or flippant, but instead shows a lightness of touch and a swiftness of attack—96 minutes to drink some cocktails, make some deals and send the Russians packing— that stand in welcome contrast to the plodding, somber earnestness of some recent movies I will tactfully refrain from naming." (NY Times) more at charliewilsonswar.net 35mm
2007, color, 1 hour 36 minutes, USA