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Transpiring in 2004, the story (scripted by Jean-Christophe Castelli from Ben Fountain’s novel) follows the members of Bravo Squad, American soldiers from the Iraq War sent on a publicity tour after one of their number, Billy Lynn , is acclaimed a hero for an on-camera attempt to rescue a fellow soldier during a firefight. For most of the ...
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Nov 10, 2016 · “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian) for bloody combat, profanity and sexual longing. Running time: 1 hour 52 minutes.
- Ang Lee
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Oct 15, 2016 · Film Review: ‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’. Ang Lee takes a bold technological leap to rediscover the reality of movies, bringing us perilously close to an Iraq War platoon. By Owen ...
Nineteen-year-old private Billy Lynn (Joe Alwyn), along with his fellow soldiers in Bravo Squad, becomes a hero after a harrowing Iraq battle and is brought home temporarily for a victory tour.
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- Ang Lee
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- Joe Alwyn
Nov 17, 2016 · In Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, director Ang Lee’s flawed but moving adaptation of the 2012 novel by Dallas author Ben Fountain, the 19-year-old Army specialist who gives the film its...
- Alex Macon
Nov 14, 2016 · Few war movies have the stuff to be as far-reaching, angry, satirical, and genuinely tragic as Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, Ang Lee’s adaptation of Ben Fountain’s brilliant novel. The...
Nov 11, 2016 · Director Ang Lee's technically innovative new drama Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is all about spectacle, not story.