 Charlie Wilson's War
Starring: Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Om Puri, Jud Tylor, Nazanin Boniadi
Directed by: Mike Nichols
Screenplay by: Aaron Sorkin
Release: December 25, 2007
MPAA Rating: R for strong language, nudity/sexual content and some drug use.
Studio: Universal Pictures
 Domestic: $66,661,095 (56.3%)
Foreign: $51,695,112 (43.7%)
Total: $118,356,207 (Worldwide)
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 A stiff drink. A little mascara. A lot of nerve. Who said they couldn't bring down the Soviet empire.
Charlie Wilson's War is the outrageous true story of how one congressman who loved a good time, one Houston socialite who loved a good cause and one CIA agent who loved a good fight conspired to bring about the largest covert operation in history.
Oscar winners Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump, Philadelphia), Julia Roberts(Erin Brockovich, Closer) and Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote, The Savages) team with Academy Award-winning director Mike Nichols (Closer, The Graduate) and Emmy Award-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (A Few Good Men, television's The West Wing) to bring George Crile's best-selling book to the screen.
Charlie Wilson (Hanks) was a bachelor congressman from Texas whose “Good Time Charlie” personality masked an astute political mind, deep sense of patriotism and compassion for the underdog. In the early 1980s, with the looming advance of a Russian invasion, that underdog was Afghanistan.
Charlie's longtime friend, frequent patron and sometime lover was Joanne Herring (Roberts), one of the wealthiest women in Texas and a virulent anticommunist. Believing the American response to the invasion of Afghanistan was anemic at best, she prodded Charlie into doing for the Mujahideen-the country's legendary freedom fighters-what no one else could: secure funding and weapons to eradicate Soviet aggressors from their land.
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