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At first doubtful and offended, Charlie (Tom Hanks) listens to the advice of a young genius weapons expert (Christopher Denham) brought in by Gust (Philip Seymour Hoffman).
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Produced by Tom Hanks, written by Aaron Sorkin, and directed by Mike Nichols, this adaptation of George Crile III's incendiary bestseller tells the remarkable story of the Texas congressman whose efforts to prevent the Red Army from overtaking Afghanistan eventually led to the collapse of the Soviet Union while simultaneously fueling the rise of radical Islam. In the early 1980s, a hastily assembled army of Afghan "freedom fighters" achieved the remarkable feat of fending off Soviet invaders despite the fact that the odds were overwhelmingly stacked against them. At the time, Texas congressman Charlie Wilson (Hanks) was a key member of the hugely powerful House Appropriations Committee. Illuminated to the specifics of this remarkable war by a high-profile Houston socialite, Wilson spearheaded an effort to provide hundreds of millions of dollars in weapons and training to the Mujahideen with more than a little help from brilliant but prickly CIA operative Gust Avrokotos.
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Cast: Patrick Bentley, Christopher Denham, Tom Hanks, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marc Pelina, Joseph Sikora, Gabriel Tigerman
Director: Mike Nichols
Producers: Celia D. Costas, Gary Goetzman, Michael Haley, Tom Hanks, Ryan Kavanaugh, Paul A. Levin, Jeff Skoll, Mary Bailey, Edward Hunt
Screenwriters: George Crile, Aaron Sorkin
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For those who don't know, the real life Mike Vickers was a total badass. He scored the highest score possible on the Army intelligence test before joining the Army Special Forces. Despite his unassuming appearance (you can't find many pictures of Mike from back then but the ones I've seen show they portrayed his stature pretty accurately in the movie) he was considered one of the foremost experts in hand to hand combat. In addition to joining the special forces he also successfully passed Ranger school and cross trained with the SEALS and SAS.
Mike was reportedly obsessed with Soviet weapons and tactics which is the main reason Gust came to him for Operation Cyclone. Post Cold War he gained his Ph.D in International Relations and went on to serve in both the defense and intelligence departments under two presidents. At one point during Barack Obama's administration he was the highest level civilian intelligence offical.
@Jason M Nevertheless the guy was a beast
thank you for your research
Where is he now?
Great explanation. Sometimes badasses aren't what they appear
And he basically designed the entire strategy for the Afghans to win. Too bad no one thought about what would come after.
"Now what the fuck, he said he was sorry!" That part always gets me, lol. RIP PSH!!
Avrakotos/Hoffman was a millennial long before millennials even existed! :-D
Seven years after your comment I’m still watching it over and over and still laughing lol
As a former officer in the Seabees /CEC, I am never surprised as the jealously of other branches.
@@HaimTabibi jealous of the Navy? 😂😂😂😂😂. I have great friends who are retired Navy, but I damn sure ain’t jealous lol. I was able to tour the USNS Comfort in Rota, Spain, and it was awesome, but I rather enjoyed getting back in my rental car and driving back to my hotel in Sevilla. I was able to tour a destroyer I think in Virginia Beach and an Aircraft Carrier. Coolest things I’ve ever seen, but never wanted to spend six months on them. I will admit I entertained joining the Navy after watching Top Gun LOL.
@@StephenKershaw1 /Eyeroll
I think a entire movie of Philip Seymour Hoffman portraying Gust would have been really entertaining.
Rest in Peace, Mr. Hoffman.
Hoffman stole the show
Yup he is totally dominating even Tom Hanks here.
RIP Hoffman, great role.
Without him the movie would be. I bet more of us remember him than remember Hanks.
Eh no
Eh, yeah! He dominated every scene with Hanks' in it. Not to say Hanks is a hack...it is what it is.
"Have you ever the story of the Zen Master..."
Could watch him all day in this role
RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman (July 23, 1967 - February 2, 2014), aged 46
You will always be remembered as a legend.
Hoffman was at another level, in my view. He had this innate ability to capture the camera.
No slight to the guys who just play themselves every movie. It can be very entertaining if they have an interesting persona. But Hoffman was the most extreme opposite of that. Pretty much every character he ever played was nothing like any of the rest.
'Need you now, Mike' perfect line that sets up the relationships.
I like how Gust puts the empty sugar packets into his pocket. Leave no trace.
He aint no slob, no season to litter.
He also ate the corner of the packets he tore off with his teeth
I hate people who litter!
Dude is an effing warrior!
I wonder if that was a real life habit from being an active heorin user in real life patrolling his "brass" so to speak i.e. baggies, syringes, etc... Or he just wasn't a POS litterbug like a bunch of people are.
G-d, he steals every scene he's in. RIP PSH. I miss you
Why are you afraid of saying God?
Speaking of one retired military man insulting another, the following is my favorite exchange of all time. I overhead it from two students in a class I was teaching, one retired Navy, one retired Marine; it was all good natured:
Navy Guy: "You're just jealous because you Marines need us Navy guys to give you a ride everywhere you go."
Marine Guy: "And you're just jealous because the Marine Corp is the men's department of the Navy"
Marine guy didn't so much as skip a heartbeat in saying it and I laughed my ### off.
"I like all you Navy boys. Everytime we gotta go someplace and fight, you guys always give us a ride."
@@toddgaak422 That was the quote from a few good men I was gonna drop as well. It was keifer Sutherlands character that said that to Tom Cruise. Another sorkin film.
But the Air Force still has the best chow...
Hanks' look of disbelief and shock when PSH says "he's a Green Beret" is hilarious and it's absolutely missed because of everything else amazing going on in this scene.
I also like the look on his face as Vickers is describing what he recommended the U.S. provide to the Afghans; Wilson is finally like "ok, now I get why this guy is the expert" lol
Aaron Sorkin's writing is nothing short of masterful. This is an incredible scene.
What is crazy about the movie is that the real story is even wilder. They toned it down because they thought it would be a Hollywood exageration
think the chess guy is flat, psh is too strong overall
@@MrYallack By design so that he comes off as unassuming. A 30 year old CIA weapons expert, with over a decade of experience in Special Operations. I’d say he played the character masterfully as well.
@@peteguard3571 indeed. On the one hand I can't blame them, on the other hand after reading the book - assuming what's in there is true, although it might not all be - the movie was kind of a letdown.
Incredible movie!
"As a former naval officer I should have known better" "As a former navel officer I would have been surprised if you had" LMAO
I know...great line and great follow up by PSH...
I am not even a military man but this line had me dying! The WIT in this line was gold.
I was the only one who laughed in the room, had to explain to everyone else why that was funny
I get that it’s funny b/c he’s ribbing on the Navy since he was army special forces but is the joke deeper than that?
Those who got it, got it. Those who didn't, didn't. Those who did can't reveal to those who didn't.
I was a linguist for the Marines in Iraq. I met that guy in Iraq! The cia weapons expert. Not the movie actor, but the real guy lol
You beat him in chess?
in real life he was not in the cia but did go on to work in government. However, he totally doesn't own a cactus pear farm. A cactus pear is not a latino.
@@AMJLBCA773Didn’t they imply none of the CIA guys actually worked for the CIA on paper? Like Gust’s job title was that he works for the department of agriculture.
@@沈啍 I don't recall that, but pharm is different than a desk job at the cia. Supposedly - the person Vickers is went to pentagon stuff, not super covert. I read that a while back but not 100% sure, just mostly.
Why isn’t this guy playing Karpov ( he was then world chess champion)
...As of 2011, that nerdy looking kid playing four games of chess is now the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence.
Yeah, Vickers is awesome. (Seriously.)
Stepped down in 2015. Nice tidbit - thanks.
looking at his rap sheet, his literally Big Boss
Yuri Orloff I’d bet anything that you can’t even tell us what someone with that job title does without looking it up. Btw, he stepped down in 2015, learn to read.
Tee OB stepped down? He passed away
1:31 The way Hoffman says "what the fuck" is just so funny.
Avrakotos/Hoffman was a millennial long before millennials even existed! :-D
"That's a useful skill, if ever Afghanistan is invaded by Boris Spassky".
Phenomenal line.
S.H. was simply a brilliant actor.....haunted but brilliant. RIP
Not haunted. Just chose poorly.
This is my 2nd favorite scene in the movie. First is the scene where Gust breaks Cravely’s window a 2nd time.
I came here after watching the scene Gust breaks the window
"For 24 years people have been trying to kill me, people that know how!" - that says a lot about what Gust had been doing and good he was
@@toddkes5890 people who know how
Brilliance. The tragedy is that we have so little of Mr. Hoffman for the rest of our lives.
His choice.
@@KB4QAA Not necessarily
Breaks my heart. PSH was a master of acting. When he died, it was so hard to watch films with him in them. I used to watch the big Lebowski weekly, after he died I didn't watch it for about a year. Every role he did, he gave something that most actors couldn't - it was some special ability where he owned the role and you just knew that no one could ever do it better, past present or future.
@@raymond3803 When you rail so much heroin that you die, yeah, that's your choice.
Can't stand the actor.
@@accountnamewithheld I can't imagine what it must be like not be able to recognize talent. Just how lonely are you?
My dad went to high school with Gust Avrokotos in Aliquippa, Pa. The CIA scooped him up when they finally realized that the best agents might be sons of immigrants, vs. just Ivy Leaguers.
Did they recruit him out of HS?
Was a greek, from limnos island if I remember well
1:47 AK-47, AK-74, AK-MS, RPG-7 Anti-Tank Grenade Launchers, (Kage-usha) 170mm Rockets, Wire Mines, Plastic Mines, Bicycle Bombs, Sniper Rifles, Ammunition, AND Frequency Hopping Radios and Burst Transmitters.. WHAT A LIST!!
Nice Blazing Saddles reference. :P
Which is clearly written by a non military guy, given that all of the above makes no sense in regards to shooting down a hind..
+spekhugger Right? He didn't even mention the Oerlikon 20mm antiaircraft cannon that was made much of in other parts of the movie. I suppose he's giving a more comprehensive list of armament the fighters needed in general, but none of these arms, save for the manpads, 170mm rockets, and RPGs were any big whoop, and like you said, none of this list besides possibly those three (at close range) could even come close to taking down a Hind. I've only gotten into guns a few years ago, and I've since become utterly disgusted how ignorant most Hollywood writers are about weapons generally, and guns in particular. If Charlie Wilson was half as smart as he supposedly was, he'd have been able to assemble this list or something better himself with a moment's reflection. Pathetic.
@The Triggerati
Couldn't have said it better myself.
If you want a truly epic gun movie, than watch Heat(That mag reload from Val kilmer is amazing).
Pretty sure it's more about all the supplies they'd need to fight back effectively, not just about shooting down helicopters. The reason they need AKs is because then they can scavenge supplies from the Russians after they kills a bunch or steal their supplies instead of being totally reliant on the US being able to supply them. (And being unable to fight if those supply lines get cut.)
Then you've got anti-tank and APC weapons, mines that can avoid easy detection and can be left to disrupt troop movements and cause extra casualties, long distance weapons for pinprick raids and ambushes to bleed the Soviets out and lower morale, more effective communication that's harder for the Soviets to track...
Charlie is overly focused on the Hinds and other helicopters like a Hip. Vickers is talking about the broader picture of what needs to be done in the overall conflict.
"guy on the right, you don't want to trade queens with me." 😂
To be fair, it's an endgame with a Queen and a Pawn on the board for both players, and his pawn is closer to promotion than the "guy on the right".
Furthermore, he can't get his king across the board in time to block the pawn promotion and cause a stalemate.
If you're gonna round up talent like Roberts, Hanks and Hoffman you better have something good for them to work with. This is a gem. Underrated and lost in the mix somehow, but you can watch it again and again and there's more here than seen at first glance. Everyone is on their game.
Tom had no business in this movie.
Don't forget Amy Adams. It says something about the level of acting when Hanks and Julia Roberts are actually the worst actors in a movie.
"No reason this can't be fun"
Goddamn! I miss PSH.
I wonder if he got one of the fentanyl batches
Same.
So many characters will never exist now that we lost that guy. Raw incredible talent. Hoffman barely had to clock in for work. I @#$&ing loved that man.
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 Fentanyl or boy who cares? We lost a dozen of us when he ODed.
Damn it forgive me for the typo
"As a former naval officer I'd have been surprised if you had." Every time 🤣🤣🤣
An amazing movie and one of my favorite parts...We'll miss you Hoffman, you crazy SOB...
He probably got a baggie of fentanyl. I was addicted to dope in the 90's and got a bag of that stuff and it nearly killed me also.
At the end, The arms expert doesn't shake the congressman's hand, just Gus's. I guess they're not friends. Touchy-touchy.
Falling Knife Stocks Well, they did just meet.
He shook the congressman’s hand at the introduction but did not shake Gus’s.
@@ThirdEngr Why the exception to the other now that everyone has been formally introduced? Remember, the congressman attacked a stranger without getting to know his credentials. I just think it's strange to leave a serious conversation (as an adult) not shaking hands with the person(s) that specifically seek your input on a matter. In other words, you did for one so do it for both since they're side by side.
I noticed that too...
It's Gust, not Gus
The banter between these guys is hilarious!! I love the TAB on the table!
Hoffman is absolutely brilliant in this scene....quite frankly any scene he’s in....miss him.
I love how Movies show a character playing Chess whenever they want us to know he's really smart. Lol
Funny they're playing 2K whenever they want to show them as being slackers
What would you prefer? Connect 4? Monopoly? The Chinese game Go?
Chess is a game about strategy, so if you want a character to immediately come off as meticulous or cunning before they even open their mouths, chess is a pretty innocuous shorthand to convey such a thing. In this instance it’s different because my dude’s playing with multiple people simultaneously, which does demonstrate his quick thinking and strategic mind. Chess isn’t a hard game, but trying to keep up with more than one game is above what most people can do, and he’s doing it pretty damn well.
@@gratzek6 'Go' would be another good one, as you have to think strategically for each board. The problem is you have more pieces that have to be carried around (180 just for white), and the board has more small locations (361 in total). Chess is one where you only have to worry about 16 pieces, a total of 64 locations, yet each piece has its own specific rules
@@toddkes5890 How many Americans could SEE a Go board, and even recognize it, let alone perceive the subtlety?
PSH deserved so many oscars it's ridiculous. RIP brother Hoffman. You can rest now.
This movie had a few really great scenes. All the ones I liked featured PSH. What a marvelous actor to behold when in roles that showcased his immense talent. I also have a weakness for protagonists with exceptional cognitive skills. Good Will Hunting, A Beautiful Mind and the nerdy kid in the white shirt, as depicted in this movie.
PSH was amazing, a true artist. I gotta say though, Good Will Hunting is so fucking cringey and bad. Sappiest movie ever, I don't know what the fuck Gus Van Sant was thinking. Wait, yes I do. He was thinking, "$$$$$$$$." A Beautiful Mind was definitely better than Good Will Hunting, but still much closer to the "middle of the road" than to a truly great piece of art.
I agree with everything you said from Phillip Seymore Hoffman to the guy in the white shirt
A Beautiful Mind was pathetic.
Chris Wolff Ron Howard's films are... meh. Definitely nothing groundbreaking or amazing. They seem like they are especially designed to appeal to a broad, undiscerning audience who just enjoy seeing familiar actors in roles/stories that are not conducive to deeper thought or analysis. The kind of movies you might watch half-heartedly on a lazy, rainy afternoon when nothing else is on TV, dozing off from time to time.
Tuan Jim I love alot of his movies: Cocoon, Apollo 13, Frost/Nixon, Cinderella Man, Ransom, Parenthood, Willow, Backdraft, etc. But A Beautiful Mind infuriated me with it's lies and forced emotion.
That crack at officers was not only deserved, but accurate
Hoffman is so funny with his coffee, cigarette and moustache.
The wit added to each character made this movie amazing! Superb writing!
Aaron Sorkin possibly the greatest writer of dialogue in tv/movie/stage history
I miss Hoffman he was so talented.
You don't want to trade "Queens" with me. Classic
The reaction makes it. "Shit!"
I would have just moved his queen off the board and whatever was protecting it I would have displaced to a non-threatening square.
"No reason this can't be fun, y'know." Kills me.
One of my all time favorite moments in any film I've ever watched.
1:32 Hoffman's delivery there is hilarious to me
Ikr, him talking is music to my ears, one of the goats
I have his voice say that in my head sometimes when I can’t find my keys all of a sudden…
And 1:25 smooth, believable
It usually was...
Nothing says early 80's like a can of TAB.
I like how Mike held his own with those two.
Telling the truth to power was once a military tradition.
As a former Naval officer I'd been surprised if you'd had. Ouch, slapped.
Fun fact the guy at the second table when he walks away, is Tommy from Power.
I just notice that,lol
You wanna answer to me or answer to Jim Baker what do you want! Hanks best line in the movie
I worked with a young-ish looking dude once, who complained he was having some trouble being respected by older senior folks. He had never seen this film. I immediately showed him this clip. His response:
"I need this in my life."
I know it's just a movie but nobody there was ever in the military (irl). One of the problems with movies is that... you can't fake what someone who's been in the military acts like. Their basic mannerisms. It's very difficult.
That shoulder pat at the end is a coach telling his star receiver, "Nice run to the end zone."
Why the hell would a congressman think that a 30 year old man playing four people simultaneously at chess without even looking at the boards wouldn't be able to be a weapons expert?
charlie wilson wasnt exactly a congressman lol
alexander shaffer Yes he was.
alexander shaffer lol yeah he was a congressman
+Big R You may have answered your own question.
Adam K Well spoken my friend.
"There's no reason this can't be fun ya know."
Story of my military career
You can thank actress Hedy Lamarr for inventing the Frequency Hoping technology that is being spoken about in this scene.
Good on you.
@@pauldegregorio6432 good on her, id say
It's Hedley
@@highviewbarbell No, it is Hedy Lamarr (actress) 1914-2000. Type in Samson and Delilah (1949 film)..
@@CogensFamilyTV type in Blazing Saddles
Philip Seymour Hoffman totally becomes every character I’ve ever seen him play. Notice how he totally dominates the great Tom Hanks here. Tom Hanks feels like Tom Hanks still but PSH is totally immersed in his character. Truly one of the greatest actors I’ve ever witnessed. He died at the peak of his career… who knows how many more great performances we lost. He reminds me of Daniel Day Lewis in his versatility and authenticity.
“There’s no reason this cant be fun you know.” JESUS PSH is such a scene stealer in ALL the movies.
Its not like he wrote that line.
Love movies like this. Truth really is stranger than fiction.
“No reason this can’t be fun you know…” love the banter between these two in this movie
Aaron Sorkin Screenplay always shine in every scene. like trading shots
0:32 THATS JAMES BAR FROM JACK REACHER
And the guy at :33 is Tommy from power
Mike is awesome. All took a slap in da face, remorse, CARRIONS
What happened after we gave all that military hardware to these guys anyways?
This is our concern, Dude.
Brandt can’t watch.
@@Imp5011
Or he has to pay a hundred.
Senator, the man is just under 30. That means he’s been working in his area for 6-10 years. You don’t need to be in your 40s to be a top SME
@cjhyde78
Subject Matter Expert.
@cjhyde78
No problem! If you are ever using the term in the conversation pronounce it, “smee”. (Like Mr Smee from Peter Pan.)
Tommy from power is one of the guys playing chess.
One of the best "What the fuck"s in the history of cinema.
Read the book, Charlie Wilson's War by Criles. There is no fiction in this movie. If anything it was watered down to make it more believable. Gust and Mick Vickers are the heroes of this story. I started the book on the chapter where they are choosing what weapons to buy! You gun nuts will love it. But here is the weird part, not one of the guns, Heat, SMLE, AK47 M15, Stinger, Oerlikon is listed in the index! All it has are peoples names including dozens who name appears just once. The book is amazing and so is the movie.
Never seen a minute of this movie I just like Philip Seymour Hoffman
I like gus. He keeps you on your toes!
Just like me.
I wish I had an uncle like his..
Arming alqueada is quite entertaining
Breaks my heart that we've lost PSH. He was a master of acting. When he died, it was so hard to watch films with him in them. I used to watch the big Lebowski weekly, after he died I didn't watch it for about a year. Every role he did, he gave something that most actors couldn't - it was some special ability where he owned the role and you just knew that no one could ever do it better, past present or future.
“This is our concern Dude.”
@@rhapsodyinglue8758 🥰🥰🥰 That's Marvellous
:30 Thats the infamous 1930's bootlegger Hans Schroeder. Leader of the the D'Alessio brothers playing chess in his downtime.
"secure courier" not as secure as it used to be. Especially if it's going to California. 😅
Not secure at all if it is going to a democrat with a Chinese National working in their office….
@@Rick_Sanchez_C137_ Was probably put back together with 3 different kinds of tape 🕵️🕵️♀️🕵️♂️. When locals mess up my tamper proof packages, they deliver to neighbors for plausible deniability.🤦🏻♂️😅
I have to watch this again. PSH on career form again.
Yoooooo that’s tommy from power he was playing against 😱😱
Tommy went from playing chess to selling drugs 😂
It was his loss here that drove him to become Ghost’s partner
Oh boy did those comments by army analyst nerds under the video age well or what?
Tommy Egan playing chess at 35 seconds 😃 Always get a buzz revisiting an older film and spotting someone at the start of their career, who's now well established 🙌
Aaron Sorkin is the greatest screenwriter alive.
2:01 - when he rolls his eyes at Hanks...that's acting
He didn't roll his eyes.
He was saying in that jester, the kid know what he's doing.
Mike!
Just a second.
Need ya now Mike.....👌
As if there is not enough cool stuff in this scene. If you look at 0:33, Mike's opponent is the actor that plays Burr in the first Jack Reacher movie. He was also the bratty KC gangster kid in Ozark on Netflix.
A very underrated film
This reminds me of The Deep Water Horizon oil rig investigation when a guy was cross examining the electrical engineer on the rig...I was paying attention his line of questions were leading to find out if the engineer was Qualified. When asked where he got his training he answered " I was an electrical engineer on America's Harrier jet program".... from then on the guy asking the questions addressed him as " Sir"
We need more people like Charlie Wilson in congress
my favorite scene especially the dialogue. Poetic Justice..
I actually met a Green Beret at a bar recently. Same age as me... totally unassuming guy. Normal, average looking, fit but not a big guy. Totally unassuming and took me completely off-guard. I was immediately impressed by his tact and succinctness when speaking.
Daniels veins in his calf's . Don't sayuncommon
Mike Vickers:
Excelled at all accepts of Special Forces Training.
Got a 160/160 on his Army intelligence test
Hand to hand expert
Soviet Weapons expert
Volunteered to parachute behind soviet lines with mini nuclear warhead if ww3 ever broke out
All those achievements, but he somehow failed to realise that supporting an Islamic fundamentalist regime might result in negative long term consequences for the west? I wonder how he felt when 25 years later America would be the occupying force in Afghanistan, where the same people he was arming here would be killing his country men.
@@davidjones272
-Ok first of all What islamic regime? The Regime in Afghanistan was communist.
-Second of all, you seem to be referring to the Taliban, which if you knew anything was formed after the end of the Soviet-Afghan War in 1994 when the U.S. no longer had any vested interests. -Furthermore it was the same insurgents we armed (Mujahideen) who later formed the Northern Alliance and fought against the Taliban and Al-Queda.
I often see this narrative supplied regularly, that the U.S. helped the same islamic insurgents that we fought against today. But had people done any research they would learn this is simply untrue.
@@davidjones272 01:32 For u
Classic writing and pacing-- Sorkin and Nichols--
Probably the best scene in the movie.
That and the bugged bottle of Scotch.
Alien Probe Yes, the window. Classic PSH. The "go f#$% yourself you f@#$ing child" is his best delivered line. Damn was he good.
"Yeah, my friend, I'm gon- I'm gonna need ya for a second..."
So many good lines, including not _one_ but _two_ great monologues.
The Window Scene is like a master class in defining and describing a character for a movie. It's great exposition, and one of the rare examples of info-dumps done properly.
It shows us exactly what sort of character we're dealing with.
Also, full credit to John Slattery in that scene, too.
@@bman342a Also his comment, "people have been trying to kill me, people that know how!" Wonder how many times he had near-death experiences from those people
The weapons expert doesn't shake hands with the Congressman as everyone leaves.
Phillip Seymour Hoffman was an Outstanding Actor !!
It really sucks that he’s no longer with us.
R.I.P.
Just Google this nerdy looking kid in the white shirt and my goodness, that dude was actually a smarter Solid Snake or something. Jeez
Can of Tab. Nice nostalgic touch.
I cannot think of a role Hoffman played that was not very well done. What demons must have possessed him to go down the path he went to his death may never be known but a great talent was lost when he died.
Presumably set in the 1980s, which may be why descriptive notation is being used for chess moves, not algebraic notation.
Tom Hanks is a good actor, but Philip Seymour Hoffman just totally outshines and outclasses him in every way in this film. He literally steals every single scene he is in.
Easily Hanks' most important film.
Mike in real life was a nerdy looking guy. But in real life he was a star athletic and hand to hand to combat expert.
and the senator gets surprised by the expertise that the chess player in white has for afghanistan situation. Go figure.
Didn't know Tommy from Power played chess in his spare time lmao
It's what made him a good criminal gang leader.
The Soviets didn't come in Afghanistan on a Eurorail pass...