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In The Valley Of Elah£4.99 Free DeliveryRRP: £19.99 | You save: £15.00 (75%) In stock | Usually dispatched within 24 hours |
- Featurette: After Iraq
- Featurette: Coming Home
- Interview With Paul Haggis
- Additional Scenes
- Trailer
Written and directed by Academy Award ®- winner Paul Haggis and starring three Academy Award ®-winning actors - Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron and Susan Sarandon - alongside James Franco, Josh Brolin and Jason Patric, In the Valley of Elah is the powerful story of one father's search for the truth.
"Your son is missing." It's the phone call every soldier's father dreads. What Hank Deerfield (Tommy Lee Jones) had never thought to fear was that this call would come when his son was home in the U.S., on leave from service in Baghdad. Facing military indifference to the disappearance, Hank decides to take matters into his own hands and discover the truth about what's happened to his son. With the reluctant help of police detective Emily Sanders (Charlize Theron), Hank embarks on a journey that will bring him up against the closed ranks of the armed forces and the harsh realities of modern warfare.

Average rating (24 reviews)
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MovieZone | 14/01/2009 | See all MovieZone's reviews (30) »
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Suberb Piece of Work
Rambo456 | 01/10/2008 | See all Rambo456's reviews (149) »
A Slow burning Movie, that sets the right mood and does not deviate from that, the story is very good as it unfolds. The actions and and results presented are not in black and white, there are a lot of Grey areas. For example I didn't know how to feel about the charcter played by Tommy Lee Jones's son. Also the Final image of the movie seemed to sum up the USA at this moment in it's history, home and abroad
If you want a good non flashy story , well directed, very well acted then you will get something from this movie.
Tommy Lee Jones certainly deserved his Oscar nom as he is Brilliant, Charie Therzon shows her Oscar win for Monster was not a fluke (unlike Halle Berry for Monsters Ball) and she is becoming a pretty fine actress. Josh Brolin was good in the couple of scenes he had, would have liked to see more. Susan Sarandon did what was required and it was nice to see Jason Patric back.
'a well directed movie that'll make you think'
rbmusicman | 07/09/2008 | See all rbmusicman's reviews (418) »
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'Hank' ( tommy lee ) and his wife ( susan sarandon ) are told their son has gone 'a.w.o.l. From his unit, 'hank' leaves home to help find his son.
After a dismembered and burnt body is found on wasteland, 'hank' has now got to persuade the authorities to mount a murder investigation that will cross the military's will to co-operate.
He finds both unwilling to pursue as he would wish, until a 'police' detective ( played by 'charlize theron' ) takes up the cause that could lead to her loosing her job.
This is not a fast moving film, but it is thought -provoking, and is well worth taking time out to watch.
Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, Susan Sarandon, Josh Broslin, James Franco, Jason Patric, Rick Gonzalez, Barry Corbin & Frances Fisher | |
15 years and over | |
2007 | |
Widescreen | |
English - Dolby Digital (5.1) | |
English For The Hearing Impaired | |
2 hours and 1 minute (approx) | |
Region 2 - Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players. |




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