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Charlie Wilson's War

by Shanna Yehlen

Cast: Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams
Release date: December 25
Why you should see it: The Middle East remains on Americans' minds day and night without our conscious awareness. Charlie Wilson's War gives its audience a history lesson, a social lesson and a political lesson. A bachelor senator from Texas (Hanks), his lover (Roberts) and a blue-collar CIA operative (Hoffman) funnel money and weapons through the system to aid Afghanistan after the Russians invade in 1979.
Box-office bottom line: Christmas Day movies are almost like a tradition. Charlie Wilson's War will be a dramatic turn, but a fantastic cast and story will keep it afloat.

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