by rick grant rickgrant01@comcast.net
B+ Rated R
Finally, a movie that comes off as quality cinema yet is accessible to general audiences. It's intelligently funny, featuring snappy, well-written dialogue, and has first-class acting. Directed by master filmmaker Mike Nichols, based on George Crile's book (a true story), and adapted to screen by Aaron Sorokin, Charlie Wilson's War is a work born from a top-notch collaboration. With Tom Hanks as producer and Mike Nichols behind the camera, this is as a good as it gets in a Hollywood movie.
Tom Hanks' savvy characterization recreated Texas Congressman Charlie Wilson as a hard drinking, skirt chasing, good-'ol-boy, who purposely hired a staff of beautiful young women he called Charlie Angels. They wore sexually provocative clothing, showing enough cleavage to sink the Titanic. He called one sexy young aide "Jailbait" (Shiri Appleby). His executive assistant, Bonnie, deftly acted by Amy Adams, was tasked with organizing Charlie's haphazard life and keeping him out of trouble on his frequent pleasure seeking junkets at naked hot tub |
