It’s a different side of war we don’t often get a chance to see, making it quite a stirring bookend to Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker. While there’s a lot of intense drama as the guys do their job, never knowing how the families they’re informing might react, it also spends a good amount of time with them as they bond, both men being quite tortured in their own way, Montgomery from a war incident that got him discharged from active duty, while Stone has many of his own issues. After premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, Moverman’s debut won a number of awards at the Berlin and Deauville film festivals, and it’s coming into the fall movie season with a lot of critical backing for what Moverman was able to get out of his cast, especially the two leads. That may be why Moverman, Foster and Harrelson have been traveling throughout the country over the last few months showing the movie and talking to audiences about the subject matter of death and grieving when it comes to the current war. Appropriately enough, ComingSoon.net sat down to interview Moverman on Veterans Day and some of the things we discussed in the following exclusive video interview include: • How the project came about The Messenger opens in New York and Washington D.C. on Friday, November 13, and in L.A. on November 20.
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