Cast & Crew
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Tom Hanks as
Charlie Wilson -
Julia Roberts as
Joanne Herring -
Philip Seymour Hoffman as
Gust Avrakotos - Amy Adams as
Bonnie -
Shiri Appleby as
Jailbait -
Rachel Nichols as
Suzanne - Ned Beatty as
Doc Long - Om Puri as
General Zia-Ul-Haq - Mary Page Keller as
Mrs. Wilson - Emily Blunt as
Jane Liddle - Erick Avari as
Avi Perlman
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"Good-Time Charlie" Wilson, a flawed and fun-loving Congressman from the piney woods of East Texas, deftly operates the levers of power to funnel money and weapons to the Mujahideen of Afghanistan following the Soviet invasion of their country in late 1979. Charlie finds assistance in the oddest of places -- a renegade CIA agent whose outsider status and womanizing ways endears him to Wilson; a Houston socialite who leads Wilson to the cause; the willing Pakistani dictator fascinated by the socialite; the Israelis who modify and manufacture Soviet weapons to maintain the wink-and-nudge illusion of American neutrality.
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Charlie Wilson's War Premiere: December 21, 2007. Charlie Wilson's War is a 2007 satirical film about Democratic Texas Congressman Charlie Wilson, who conspired with a rogue CIA operative named Gust Avrakotos to launch an operation to help the Afghan Mujahideen during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. It is based on a 2003 book of the same title by George Crile. The film is directed by Mike Nichols, written by Aaron Sorkin, and stars Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Phillip Seymour Hoffman.
Type: Movie
Genres/Tags: Biography, Movie-Drama, Movie-New-Release
