It’s called The Messenger; 
I never heard of anyone in the cast but Harrelson and expected little from the film. But it really got to me. I think it would to you, too.
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It’s called The Messenger;
I never heard of anyone in the cast but Harrelson and expected little from the film. But it really got to me. I think it would to you, too.
Matthew says:
Thanks for the suggestion, Frederik.
August 6, 2010, 5:33 pmKevin B. Landreneau says:
This is a great recommendation. I can’t remember watching a movie that explored the cost of war in this manner. I found myself wondering which was worse, being a recipient of a visit, or delivering that news, day after day, year after year? And, in the course of all those deliveries, at what point do you decide to check in your humanity at the front desk, and forget to come back?
August 11, 2010, 6:09 amMichael Grosberg says:
Actually I did expect to like it beforehand. contrary to the usual movie experience, I was not disappointed – the opposite is true, if anything I came out liking it even more than I thought I would.
August 19, 2010, 7:56 am