Lions For Lambs

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Directed by Academy Award® winner Robert Redford, (yes, Robert Redford won the Best Director Oscar for the 1980 film Ordinary People), the story begins after two determined students at a West Coast University, Arian (DEREK LUKE) and Ernest (MICHAEL PENA), follow the inspiration of their idealistic professor, Dr. Malley (ROBERT REDFORD), and attempt to do something important with their lives. But when the two make the bold decision to join the battle in Afghanistan, Malley is both moved and distraught. Now, as Arian and Ernest fight for survival in the field, they become the string that binds together two disparate stories on opposite sides of America. In California, an anguished Dr. Malley attempts to reach a privileged but disaffected student (ANDREW GARFIELD) who is the very opposite of Arian and Ernest. Meanwhile, in Washington D.C. the charismatic Presidential hopeful, Senator Jasper Irving (TOM CRUISE), is about to give a bombshell story to a probing TV journalist (MERYL STREEP) that may affect Arian and Ernest’s fates. As arguments, memories and bullets fly, the three stories are woven ever more tightly together, revealing how each of these Americans has a profound impact on each other and the world.

STARRING: , Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Derek Luke, Michael Pena, Peter Berg, Andrew Garfield
DIRECTOR: Robert Redford
STUDIO: United Artists
RATING: R (For language, violence and adult situations)

RUNNING TIME: 88 minutes

Wild About Movies Grade: D-
One of the worst, if not THE WORST, all star Hollywood movies of the current century. Nothing but propaganda in this film (a painfully boring narrative happening in real time, 88 minutes, with only one set, one room/location where the action happens in each of the three vignettes, each happening real time) that would have better been a high school stage play - thankfully, not a musical - which would have earned the movie an F.