Charlie Wilson's War (2007)

Actors: Dan Rather (actor), Denis O'Hare (actor), Om Puri (actor), Navid Negahban (actor), Brian Markinson (actor), Spencer Garrett (actor), Philip Seymour Hoffman (actor), Erick Avari (actor), Don Abernathy (actor), Kevin Cooney (actor), Peter Gerety (actor), Tom Hanks (actor), Ned Beatty (actor), Ilia Volok (actor), John Slattery (actor),

Plot: In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas who seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, prodded by his major conservative supporter, Houston Socialite Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight the people are suffering in the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. With the help of the maverick CIA agent, Gustav "Gust" Avrakotos, Wilson dedicates his canny political efforts to supply the Afghan mujahideen with the weapons and support to defeat the Soviet Union. However, Charlie Wilson eventually learns that while military victory can be had, there are other consequences and prices to that fight that are ignored to everyone's sorrow.

Keywords: 1980s, 1990s, aclu, afghan-war, afghanistan, aide, air-drop, airliner, airplane, airplane-trip
Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History,
Taglines: A stiff drink. A little mascara. A lot of nerve. Who said they couldn't bring down the Soviet empire. Based on a true story. You think we could make all this up? When the world wasn't watching, they changed it forever. Based On The Outrageous True Story.

Quotes:

Joanne Herring: [Joanne has just told Bonnie to get her a cocktail] She doesn't like me.::Charlie Wilson: Everybody likes you.::Joanne Herring: She's a liberal.::Charlie Wilson: I'm a liberal.::Joanne Herring: [puts her hand on his butt] Not where it counts.

Charlie Wilson: Were you standing at the goddamn door listening to me? How could you even - That is a thick door! You stood there and you listened to me?::Gust Avrakotos: I didn't stand at the door. Don't be an idiot. I bugged the Scotch bottle.::Charlie Wilson: What!::Gust Avrakotos: It's got a little transmitter on it, I've got a little thing in my ear, get past it.

Gust Avrakotos: Yeah, well I'd like to take a moment to review the several ways in which you're a douche bag?

Charlie Wilson: You know you've reached rock bottom when you're told you have character flaws by a man who hanged his predecessor in a military coup.

Larry Liddle: Miss?::Charlie's Angel #1: Yes sir?::Larry Liddle: It seems to me lookin' around, that it's almost all women workin' here; and that they're all very pretty. Is that common?::Charlie's Angel #1: Well... Congressman Wilson, he has an expression. He says uhh, "You can teach 'em to type, but you can't teach 'em to grow tits."::Larry Liddle: Well, that's... charming.

Cravely: And I don't know why the hell I didn't fire you when you broke my fucking window.::Gust Avrakotos: Oh yes sure you do Cravely.::Cravely: Look Gust!::Gust Avrakotos: Yeah you're fucking Roger's fiance, and you know I know.::Cravely: I'm not... I'm not... I'm not even gonna dignify that with a response.::Gust Avrakotos: Yeah yeah, you're dignifying her in the ass, at the Jefferson Hotel, Room 1210, but let me ask you, the 3000 agents Turner fired, was that because they lacked diplomatic skills as well?

Gust Avrakotos: [after smashing his boss's office window] My loyalty! For twenty four years people have been trying to kill me! People who know how. Now do you think that's because my dad was a Greek soda pop maker? Or do you think that's because I'm an American spy? Go fuck yourself, you fucking child!

Charlie Wilson: These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world... and then we fucked up the endgame.

Gust Avrakotos: There's a little boy and on his 14th birthday he gets a horse... and everybody in the village says, "how wonderful. The boy got a horse" And the Zen master says, "we'll see." Two years later, the boy falls off the horse, breaks his leg, and everyone in the village says, "How terrible." And the Zen master says, "We'll see." Then, a war breaks out and all the young men have to go off and fight... except the boy can't cause his legs all messed up. and everybody in the village says, "How wonderful."::Charlie Wilson: Now the Zen master says, "We'll see."

Joanne Herring: Why is Congress saying one thing and doing nothing?::Charlie Wilson: Well, tradition mostly.

Charlie Wilson's War (2007)

Actors: Dan Rather (actor), Denis O'Hare (actor), Om Puri (actor), Navid Negahban (actor), Brian Markinson (actor), Spencer Garrett (actor), Philip Seymour Hoffman (actor), Erick Avari (actor), Don Abernathy (actor), Kevin Cooney (actor), Peter Gerety (actor), Tom Hanks (actor), Ned Beatty (actor), Ilia Volok (actor), John Slattery (actor),

Plot: In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas who seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, prodded by his major conservative supporter, Houston Socialite Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight the people are suffering in the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. With the help of the maverick CIA agent, Gustav "Gust" Avrakotos, Wilson dedicates his canny political efforts to supply the Afghan mujahideen with the weapons and support to defeat the Soviet Union. However, Charlie Wilson eventually learns that while military victory can be had, there are other consequences and prices to that fight that are ignored to everyone's sorrow.

Keywords: 1980s, 1990s, aclu, afghan-war, afghanistan, aide, air-drop, airliner, airplane, airplane-trip
Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History,
Taglines: A stiff drink. A little mascara. A lot of nerve. Who said they couldn't bring down the Soviet empire. Based on a true story. You think we could make all this up? When the world wasn't watching, they changed it forever. Based On The Outrageous True Story.

Quotes:

Joanne Herring: [Joanne has just told Bonnie to get her a cocktail] She doesn't like me.::Charlie Wilson: Everybody likes you.::Joanne Herring: She's a liberal.::Charlie Wilson: I'm a liberal.::Joanne Herring: [puts her hand on his butt] Not where it counts.

Charlie Wilson: Were you standing at the goddamn door listening to me? How could you even - That is a thick door! You stood there and you listened to me?::Gust Avrakotos: I didn't stand at the door. Don't be an idiot. I bugged the Scotch bottle.::Charlie Wilson: What!::Gust Avrakotos: It's got a little transmitter on it, I've got a little thing in my ear, get past it.

Gust Avrakotos: Yeah, well I'd like to take a moment to review the several ways in which you're a douche bag?

Charlie Wilson: You know you've reached rock bottom when you're told you have character flaws by a man who hanged his predecessor in a military coup.

Larry Liddle: Miss?::Charlie's Angel #1: Yes sir?::Larry Liddle: It seems to me lookin' around, that it's almost all women workin' here; and that they're all very pretty. Is that common?::Charlie's Angel #1: Well... Congressman Wilson, he has an expression. He says uhh, "You can teach 'em to type, but you can't teach 'em to grow tits."::Larry Liddle: Well, that's... charming.

Cravely: And I don't know why the hell I didn't fire you when you broke my fucking window.::Gust Avrakotos: Oh yes sure you do Cravely.::Cravely: Look Gust!::Gust Avrakotos: Yeah you're fucking Roger's fiance, and you know I know.::Cravely: I'm not... I'm not... I'm not even gonna dignify that with a response.::Gust Avrakotos: Yeah yeah, you're dignifying her in the ass, at the Jefferson Hotel, Room 1210, but let me ask you, the 3000 agents Turner fired, was that because they lacked diplomatic skills as well?

Gust Avrakotos: [after smashing his boss's office window] My loyalty! For twenty four years people have been trying to kill me! People who know how. Now do you think that's because my dad was a Greek soda pop maker? Or do you think that's because I'm an American spy? Go fuck yourself, you fucking child!

Charlie Wilson: These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world... and then we fucked up the endgame.

Gust Avrakotos: There's a little boy and on his 14th birthday he gets a horse... and everybody in the village says, "how wonderful. The boy got a horse" And the Zen master says, "we'll see." Two years later, the boy falls off the horse, breaks his leg, and everyone in the village says, "How terrible." And the Zen master says, "We'll see." Then, a war breaks out and all the young men have to go off and fight... except the boy can't cause his legs all messed up. and everybody in the village says, "How wonderful."::Charlie Wilson: Now the Zen master says, "We'll see."

Joanne Herring: Why is Congress saying one thing and doing nothing?::Charlie Wilson: Well, tradition mostly.

Charlie Wilson's War (2007)

Actors: Dan Rather (actor), Denis O'Hare (actor), Om Puri (actor), Navid Negahban (actor), Brian Markinson (actor), Spencer Garrett (actor), Philip Seymour Hoffman (actor), Erick Avari (actor), Don Abernathy (actor), Kevin Cooney (actor), Peter Gerety (actor), Tom Hanks (actor), Ned Beatty (actor), Ilia Volok (actor), John Slattery (actor),

Plot: In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas who seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, prodded by his major conservative supporter, Houston Socialite Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight the people are suffering in the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. With the help of the maverick CIA agent, Gustav "Gust" Avrakotos, Wilson dedicates his canny political efforts to supply the Afghan mujahideen with the weapons and support to defeat the Soviet Union. However, Charlie Wilson eventually learns that while military victory can be had, there are other consequences and prices to that fight that are ignored to everyone's sorrow.

Keywords: 1980s, 1990s, aclu, afghan-war, afghanistan, aide, air-drop, airliner, airplane, airplane-trip
Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History,
Taglines: A stiff drink. A little mascara. A lot of nerve. Who said they couldn't bring down the Soviet empire. Based on a true story. You think we could make all this up? When the world wasn't watching, they changed it forever. Based On The Outrageous True Story.

Quotes:

Joanne Herring: [Joanne has just told Bonnie to get her a cocktail] She doesn't like me.::Charlie Wilson: Everybody likes you.::Joanne Herring: She's a liberal.::Charlie Wilson: I'm a liberal.::Joanne Herring: [puts her hand on his butt] Not where it counts.

Charlie Wilson: Were you standing at the goddamn door listening to me? How could you even - That is a thick door! You stood there and you listened to me?::Gust Avrakotos: I didn't stand at the door. Don't be an idiot. I bugged the Scotch bottle.::Charlie Wilson: What!::Gust Avrakotos: It's got a little transmitter on it, I've got a little thing in my ear, get past it.

Gust Avrakotos: Yeah, well I'd like to take a moment to review the several ways in which you're a douche bag?

Charlie Wilson: You know you've reached rock bottom when you're told you have character flaws by a man who hanged his predecessor in a military coup.

Larry Liddle: Miss?::Charlie's Angel #1: Yes sir?::Larry Liddle: It seems to me lookin' around, that it's almost all women workin' here; and that they're all very pretty. Is that common?::Charlie's Angel #1: Well... Congressman Wilson, he has an expression. He says uhh, "You can teach 'em to type, but you can't teach 'em to grow tits."::Larry Liddle: Well, that's... charming.

Cravely: And I don't know why the hell I didn't fire you when you broke my fucking window.::Gust Avrakotos: Oh yes sure you do Cravely.::Cravely: Look Gust!::Gust Avrakotos: Yeah you're fucking Roger's fiance, and you know I know.::Cravely: I'm not... I'm not... I'm not even gonna dignify that with a response.::Gust Avrakotos: Yeah yeah, you're dignifying her in the ass, at the Jefferson Hotel, Room 1210, but let me ask you, the 3000 agents Turner fired, was that because they lacked diplomatic skills as well?

Gust Avrakotos: [after smashing his boss's office window] My loyalty! For twenty four years people have been trying to kill me! People who know how. Now do you think that's because my dad was a Greek soda pop maker? Or do you think that's because I'm an American spy? Go fuck yourself, you fucking child!

Charlie Wilson: These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world... and then we fucked up the endgame.

Gust Avrakotos: There's a little boy and on his 14th birthday he gets a horse... and everybody in the village says, "how wonderful. The boy got a horse" And the Zen master says, "we'll see." Two years later, the boy falls off the horse, breaks his leg, and everyone in the village says, "How terrible." And the Zen master says, "We'll see." Then, a war breaks out and all the young men have to go off and fight... except the boy can't cause his legs all messed up. and everybody in the village says, "How wonderful."::Charlie Wilson: Now the Zen master says, "We'll see."

Joanne Herring: Why is Congress saying one thing and doing nothing?::Charlie Wilson: Well, tradition mostly.

Charlie Wilson's War (2007)

Actors: Dan Rather (actor), Denis O'Hare (actor), Om Puri (actor), Navid Negahban (actor), Brian Markinson (actor), Spencer Garrett (actor), Philip Seymour Hoffman (actor), Erick Avari (actor), Don Abernathy (actor), Kevin Cooney (actor), Peter Gerety (actor), Tom Hanks (actor), Ned Beatty (actor), Ilia Volok (actor), John Slattery (actor),

Plot: In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas who seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, prodded by his major conservative supporter, Houston Socialite Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight the people are suffering in the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. With the help of the maverick CIA agent, Gustav "Gust" Avrakotos, Wilson dedicates his canny political efforts to supply the Afghan mujahideen with the weapons and support to defeat the Soviet Union. However, Charlie Wilson eventually learns that while military victory can be had, there are other consequences and prices to that fight that are ignored to everyone's sorrow.

Keywords: 1980s, 1990s, aclu, afghan-war, afghanistan, aide, air-drop, airliner, airplane, airplane-trip
Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History,
Taglines: A stiff drink. A little mascara. A lot of nerve. Who said they couldn't bring down the Soviet empire. Based on a true story. You think we could make all this up? When the world wasn't watching, they changed it forever. Based On The Outrageous True Story.

Quotes:

Joanne Herring: [Joanne has just told Bonnie to get her a cocktail] She doesn't like me.::Charlie Wilson: Everybody likes you.::Joanne Herring: She's a liberal.::Charlie Wilson: I'm a liberal.::Joanne Herring: [puts her hand on his butt] Not where it counts.

Charlie Wilson: Were you standing at the goddamn door listening to me? How could you even - That is a thick door! You stood there and you listened to me?::Gust Avrakotos: I didn't stand at the door. Don't be an idiot. I bugged the Scotch bottle.::Charlie Wilson: What!::Gust Avrakotos: It's got a little transmitter on it, I've got a little thing in my ear, get past it.

Gust Avrakotos: Yeah, well I'd like to take a moment to review the several ways in which you're a douche bag?

Charlie Wilson: You know you've reached rock bottom when you're told you have character flaws by a man who hanged his predecessor in a military coup.

Larry Liddle: Miss?::Charlie's Angel #1: Yes sir?::Larry Liddle: It seems to me lookin' around, that it's almost all women workin' here; and that they're all very pretty. Is that common?::Charlie's Angel #1: Well... Congressman Wilson, he has an expression. He says uhh, "You can teach 'em to type, but you can't teach 'em to grow tits."::Larry Liddle: Well, that's... charming.

Cravely: And I don't know why the hell I didn't fire you when you broke my fucking window.::Gust Avrakotos: Oh yes sure you do Cravely.::Cravely: Look Gust!::Gust Avrakotos: Yeah you're fucking Roger's fiance, and you know I know.::Cravely: I'm not... I'm not... I'm not even gonna dignify that with a response.::Gust Avrakotos: Yeah yeah, you're dignifying her in the ass, at the Jefferson Hotel, Room 1210, but let me ask you, the 3000 agents Turner fired, was that because they lacked diplomatic skills as well?

Gust Avrakotos: [after smashing his boss's office window] My loyalty! For twenty four years people have been trying to kill me! People who know how. Now do you think that's because my dad was a Greek soda pop maker? Or do you think that's because I'm an American spy? Go fuck yourself, you fucking child!

Charlie Wilson: These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world... and then we fucked up the endgame.

Gust Avrakotos: There's a little boy and on his 14th birthday he gets a horse... and everybody in the village says, "how wonderful. The boy got a horse" And the Zen master says, "we'll see." Two years later, the boy falls off the horse, breaks his leg, and everyone in the village says, "How terrible." And the Zen master says, "We'll see." Then, a war breaks out and all the young men have to go off and fight... except the boy can't cause his legs all messed up. and everybody in the village says, "How wonderful."::Charlie Wilson: Now the Zen master says, "We'll see."

Joanne Herring: Why is Congress saying one thing and doing nothing?::Charlie Wilson: Well, tradition mostly.

Charlie Wilson's War (2007)

Actors: Dan Rather (actor), Denis O'Hare (actor), Om Puri (actor), Navid Negahban (actor), Brian Markinson (actor), Spencer Garrett (actor), Philip Seymour Hoffman (actor), Erick Avari (actor), Don Abernathy (actor), Kevin Cooney (actor), Peter Gerety (actor), Tom Hanks (actor), Ned Beatty (actor), Ilia Volok (actor), John Slattery (actor),

Plot: In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas who seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, prodded by his major conservative supporter, Houston Socialite Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight the people are suffering in the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. With the help of the maverick CIA agent, Gustav "Gust" Avrakotos, Wilson dedicates his canny political efforts to supply the Afghan mujahideen with the weapons and support to defeat the Soviet Union. However, Charlie Wilson eventually learns that while military victory can be had, there are other consequences and prices to that fight that are ignored to everyone's sorrow.

Keywords: 1980s, 1990s, aclu, afghan-war, afghanistan, aide, air-drop, airliner, airplane, airplane-trip
Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History,
Taglines: A stiff drink. A little mascara. A lot of nerve. Who said they couldn't bring down the Soviet empire. Based on a true story. You think we could make all this up? When the world wasn't watching, they changed it forever. Based On The Outrageous True Story.

Quotes:

Joanne Herring: [Joanne has just told Bonnie to get her a cocktail] She doesn't like me.::Charlie Wilson: Everybody likes you.::Joanne Herring: She's a liberal.::Charlie Wilson: I'm a liberal.::Joanne Herring: [puts her hand on his butt] Not where it counts.

Charlie Wilson: Were you standing at the goddamn door listening to me? How could you even - That is a thick door! You stood there and you listened to me?::Gust Avrakotos: I didn't stand at the door. Don't be an idiot. I bugged the Scotch bottle.::Charlie Wilson: What!::Gust Avrakotos: It's got a little transmitter on it, I've got a little thing in my ear, get past it.

Gust Avrakotos: Yeah, well I'd like to take a moment to review the several ways in which you're a douche bag?

Charlie Wilson: You know you've reached rock bottom when you're told you have character flaws by a man who hanged his predecessor in a military coup.

Larry Liddle: Miss?::Charlie's Angel #1: Yes sir?::Larry Liddle: It seems to me lookin' around, that it's almost all women workin' here; and that they're all very pretty. Is that common?::Charlie's Angel #1: Well... Congressman Wilson, he has an expression. He says uhh, "You can teach 'em to type, but you can't teach 'em to grow tits."::Larry Liddle: Well, that's... charming.

Cravely: And I don't know why the hell I didn't fire you when you broke my fucking window.::Gust Avrakotos: Oh yes sure you do Cravely.::Cravely: Look Gust!::Gust Avrakotos: Yeah you're fucking Roger's fiance, and you know I know.::Cravely: I'm not... I'm not... I'm not even gonna dignify that with a response.::Gust Avrakotos: Yeah yeah, you're dignifying her in the ass, at the Jefferson Hotel, Room 1210, but let me ask you, the 3000 agents Turner fired, was that because they lacked diplomatic skills as well?

Gust Avrakotos: [after smashing his boss's office window] My loyalty! For twenty four years people have been trying to kill me! People who know how. Now do you think that's because my dad was a Greek soda pop maker? Or do you think that's because I'm an American spy? Go fuck yourself, you fucking child!

Charlie Wilson: These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world... and then we fucked up the endgame.

Gust Avrakotos: There's a little boy and on his 14th birthday he gets a horse... and everybody in the village says, "how wonderful. The boy got a horse" And the Zen master says, "we'll see." Two years later, the boy falls off the horse, breaks his leg, and everyone in the village says, "How terrible." And the Zen master says, "We'll see." Then, a war breaks out and all the young men have to go off and fight... except the boy can't cause his legs all messed up. and everybody in the village says, "How wonderful."::Charlie Wilson: Now the Zen master says, "We'll see."

Joanne Herring: Why is Congress saying one thing and doing nothing?::Charlie Wilson: Well, tradition mostly.