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An idealistic professor (Redford), a charismatic U.S. Senator (Cruise) and a probing TV journalist (Streep) have opposing viewpoints about the actions of our nation and the attitudes of its citizens. But the human consequences of war become chillingly clear for two of the professor's former students, who find themselves trapped behind enemy lines, fighting for freedom... and their very lives.

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 2.40:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.4 Ounces
Item model number ‏ : ‎ 5072899
Director ‏ : ‎ Robert Redford
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, AC-3, Blu-ray, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 32 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ May 19, 2009
Actors ‏ : ‎ Peter Berg, Kevin Dunn, Meryl Streep, Tom Cruise, Robert Redford
Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ French, Spanish
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ Spanish, French, English
Studio ‏ : ‎ Mgm (Video & DVD)
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B001U6YI9C
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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sofia

Did this 2007 film predict what will happen in 2021? YES.

Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2023

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The scene where the senator's discusses what would happen if the US just left Afghanistan instead of remaining to fight made me check the year this movie was made... Sure enough, it was made 14 years prior to the day the US forces left( in a few days) Afghanistan, leaving billions of dollars worth of weapons, millions and millions of women and children at their bleak destiny without an ounce of hope... Wow. This movie is prophetic and it only shows that indeed politics are as hypocritical as they come. To this day, I cannot forget the faces of the women and children running after the US forces planes that were leaving, abandoning them without any care or consideration. Unbelievable.

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ItsBrently

An honest attempt to portray our reality, as it is.

Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2008

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The film Lions for Lambs is an honest attempt to portray the spicy geopolitical climate in its raw, unedited and costly truth. The film takes place in three films, one between two brother's in arms, another between a student and his teacher and another between a journalist and a pathocratic senator. Each vignette offers an illuminating look at the reality of our situation, and I mean our because each one of us can somehow fit into the film itself.

The brother's in arms are interestingly, two previous students of the professor we're introduced to. We're shown their military adventure in Afghanistan as they attempt to fulfill a new strategy issued by the senator. Their characters are bold, courageous, and strong-willed. They have an incredible power of conscience, and a desire to do what is right. Their failing? They lack accurate psychological knowledge of the men who lead them. They are Lions for Lambs.

The pathocratic senator is played exceedingly well by Tom Cruise. I'd never thought I'd enjoy his performance as much as I did in this film. He shows a psychopathic ability to mix words, to tug on a normal man's emotions, to lie with the cunning conviction he is right, more then that - that he is righteous - because he possesses a pathological nature that prevents him from seeing, thinking or believing otherwise. The journalist who shares his entire vignette is played by Meryl Streep, and her desire to honestly do her job and do it right comes through strong. She is invited by the senator for an hour to discuss the 'new strategy' in Afghanistan, and to help relay it to the public. She does an excellent job of asking the questions anyone of conscience would ask, and we can see Cruises' character's pathology if we pay attention.

The last vignette is between Robert Redford, who plays a professor at an unnamed California University and a student of his that shows much promise. The student has potential, but feels as if he'd be happier with a 'normal life', keeping his head down, getting a good job, and making the best out of his life without trying to play a big role in world events. He makes a good argument, but is countered by experience, wisdom and an understanding which he cannot quite grasp due to his youth. For the greater part of the interaction we're not even sure if an impact is made, if his armor is dented, but there is hope reflected in the very last scene that makes the entire bit worth it.

The core of the film is a display of the reality of our situation here in America. Our politicians are self-serving, lying, pathological monsters who are irredeemable and incapable of change. The establishment that is Mainstream Media is saturated with people who are solely 'doing their job' or so they think, by reporting what they are told - propaganda or not. Some of them are damn good people, who have a strong conscience, but due to circumstance (mostly age and financial obligations) cannot change. Their potential to be something different has dried up.

Then we are shown the best and the brightest. Two out of three of which ended up believing their abilities would best be used serving this country in it's war effort. They had the conscience, the dedication and the will to do something new, bold and dramatic - but they didn't have the knowledge that would have allowed their effort to really make an impact, and the results are given to us dramatically.

The third student is a wild card, we're really not sure what he does by the end of the film, but we're given hope that he may attempt something great - to succeed or fail matters not, but that he may attempt it gives us hope. In my mind I saw all of us as that third student. Young, smart, definitely lazy and more interested in social life and girls then knowledge and wisdom which would allow him to fight to change the world. He is the future, the potential future, it exists only as a potential because it is possible, but extremely difficult to manifest. It can only happen with dedication, conscience, and knowledge - which are much more difficult to acquire then a video game, television show, sports event or event a really hot lay.

That is the core of the film, if we want to make an impact, to make positive changes to our world, to become our potential as individuals and as a society we have to want it, we have to try for it, and we have to make it a daily effort.

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BobBoylston

More propaganda

Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2021

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There are foru main propagandist themes running through both sides of all 'discussions' in Mr. Redford's somewhat noble attempt at trying to make a decent film. They are three themes that Americans need to get well past, and one would think we already should have after 20 years of wars, colored 'threat charts', taking off our shoes in airports, millions of civilians and 10,000 Americans needlessly slaughtered, and $5.5 TRILLION dollars - borrowed dollars, which our bankrupt country can never repay - handed mostly in profits to 'private contractors.

Those four pieces of propaganda, in not particular order are:
1) Nineteen guys led by a guy on dialysis and hunkered down in a cave evaded the entire security apparatus to the United States, allegedly hijacked at least four commercial airlines in a coordinated attack on a day when 42 military, FEMA and other exercises wee allegedly coincidentally scheduled, including hijack scenarios, with E-4Bs circling the White House , prevented any pilot from squawking a hijack code, and, without the requisite skills, allegedly flew three of the airliners into extremely difficult target with pinpoint precision at alleged speeds that cannot be attained by commercial airlines a ground level, cauisng three buildings to violate every known law of physics and thermodynamics and fall into their own footprints, creating inextinguishable fires similar to thermate and nano-thermite, while fitting a 120-foot wingspan into an 18-foot wide hole in the Pentagon, where no one smelled jet fuel, but many witnesses smelled cordite, a plane which allegedly completely vaporized in an explosion that left enough human remains to identify every passenger by his or her DNA that was not magically also vaporized, and at the same time caused America's vaunted air force to remain grounded and missile batteries to remain unfired the entire time. This is known as The Official Conspiracy Theory, and both sides of every argument in the film are moronic enough to accept it at face value in the light of all logic and evidence to the contrary.
2) Somewhere in our country there are still people in the 'liberal media' who still have enough of a conscience to tell the truth about anything.
3) America and her leaders are inherently good and morally superior to anyone who disagrees with them or the powerful Israeli lobby whose bidding America willfully does almost everything demanded of her.
4) America's political and military leaders would never do anything intentionally evil; it's all incompetence or 'good faith' mistakes.

Themes 3) and 5), taken together, are sometimes known as the Religion of Nationalistic Faith. This religion trumps all other religions and morality, primarily due to the cognitive dissonance it creates when strong, clear, irrefutable evidence and logic to the contrary. This cognitive dissonance is so strong that it leads those without intellectual integrity to dismiss out-of-hand and 'a priori' anything that conflicts with the National Faith. There is no other way to account for 86% of Evangelical Catholics and Protestants' voting for Bush/Cheney and Trump/Pence TWICE...or Democrats for Obama and $hillary.

I am surprised and saddened that Mr. Redford and Ms. Streep, in this alleged 'quest for truth' of a film, did not raise the the only thing that can account for what happened on September the11th, 2001, which led to two illegal fakes wares - an Alternate Conspiracy Theory, planned, executed, and covered up by The Arses of Evil.

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Mr. Stephen Kennedy

Earnest but uninvolving

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 14, 2008

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You know those movies that you watch, and find so compelling you say to people `you HAVE to see this movie...'? Well, this movie aims for this, but alas merely reaches the heights of `Yeah, it's worth watching...'.
The film revolves around 3 storylines, essentially taking place simultaneously, and in real time, but this structure is not religiously adhered to as there are also some flashbacks. In Washington, a senior Senator rumoured to be a potential Presidential candidate, invites a respected journalist from a major TV news network, to give her an exclusive on the latest tactics being used in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, that push is shown through the eyes of two soldiers in the Special Forces, as the mission goes wrong and they are stuck behind enemy lines. The final strand is in a University, as the professor Robert Redford talks to a student full of potential but with more than enough cynicism and apathy to go with it. He shares his experience with the story of the two Special Forces soldiers, who were students of his and left to `go make a difference'.
It's a movie brimming with talent to be sure, with Robert Redford directing and Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep acting their socks off.. Cruise does give a compellingly convincing portrayal of a senior politician, convinced of his moral high ground but using it to further his career as much or if not more than doing the right thing. Streep also gives a performance which at times seems just a little too self consciously rounded, when something stripped down to basics would have done just as well. Her tics and mannerisms would have been better served in a movie which focused on her character. Redford is.. well, simply Redford.
The script, when we hear the characters debating with each other (which is most of the movie - don't go expecting an action flick whatever you do..) is intelligent and gets across its message clearly enough. Engagement is needed - apathy is a recipe for disaster, whether it be apathy on an individuals part or on the part of the media. Clumsy parallels to Vietnam are made. However, we don't have time to warm to any of the characters, neither are arcs to the characters developed, such that the movie ultimately feels like a lecture - something that a documentary could have done as well - or even better, using actual facts instead of drama.
Worth watching for some good performances and literate script, but should have been much more. How did such interesting talent combine to make such a mediocre product - is making a statement on war so much at odds with good film-making these days?

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Manuel

Buen bluray

Reviewed in Spain on June 11, 2023

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Buen bluray, aunque la película deja bastante que desear.

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Andrea Zanardi

Intrigante e attuale

Reviewed in Italy on June 4, 2023

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Attori eccellenti. Trama intrigante

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Harald Stute

Starker Film mit sehr guten Darstellern

Reviewed in Germany on March 17, 2017

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Habe mir gestern mal diesen wirklich gut inszenierten Film von Robert Redford angeschaut, nachdem der schon jahrelang bei mir im Schrank lag. Der Film ist mit seiner Darstellerbesetzung Meryl Streep, Robert Redford und Tom Cruise wirklich gut besetzt. Auch Andrew Garfield, hier in einer seiner ersten großen Rollen macht seine Sache sehr gut. Der Film ist sehr dialoglastig und bestimmt nichts für einen gemütlichen Couchabend. Dazu muss man der Handlung doch genau folgen, die ja auch durch die 3 Handlungsfäden immer wieder aufgesplittet wird.
Da geht es zum einen um einen smarten aber aalglatten Senator (Tom Cruise/großartig) der einer Reporterin (Meryl Streep) seine neue Offensivtaktik in Afghanistan schmackhaft machen will. Im anderen Fall versucht ein Professor einem begabten Studenten klarzumachen, sein Leben nicht zu vergeuden und über die Zukunft nachzudenken. Und dann ist da noch der Fall mit den 2 Soldaten, die während eines Einsatzes im Hindukusch von Kameraden getrennt ,verletzt und von Feinden umzingelt, auf Rettung hoffen ! Irgendwie haben diese Personen auf eine Art alle miteinander zu tun; wenn nicht persönlich dann doch durch das Thema des Films. Der Film regt bestimmt zum Nachdenken an und ist aktueller denn je ! Ich würde auch nicht mal sagen, dass er so typisch amerikanisch ist ; manches kann man auch in unsere deutsche Gesellschaft interpretieren.
Die Botschaft ist doch ganz klar, über sein Leben nachzudenken, zu seinen Überzeugungen zu stehen und sich nicht von berieselnden teilweise verfälschenden Medien beeinflussen zu lassen. Jeder sollte seine Möglichkeiten ausschöpfen; nur dann kann man später sagen, man hat etwas bewegen wollen, auch wenn die Handlungen vielleicht nicht mit dem gewünschten Erfolg gekrönt wurden ! Ganz starker Beitrag zum Thema der heutigen Gesellschaft von Robert Redford !

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pamela arme

Dvd fine

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 16, 2023

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Film quite good

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Genre	Drama
Format	Multiple Formats, AC-3, Blu-ray, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen See more
Contributor	Robert Redford, Michael Pea, Meryl Streep, Kevin Dunn, Peter Berg, Derek Luke, Christopher Carley, Andrew Garfield, Michael Pena, Tom Cruise See more
Language	English
Runtime	1 hour and 32 minutes

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