Lions for Lambs (2007) on Netflix
Senator Jasper Irving gives reporter Janine Roth an exclusive on a new Afghanistan offensive. Two of the soldiers in it, Arian Finch and Ernest Rodriguez, studied under Professor Stephen Malley.
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Trailer
Plot summary
Janine Roth, a television journalist, arrives at the office of Republican Senator Jasper Irving for an hour-long interview. Rather than the story she had planned, he hands her a new strategy for Afghanistan, sending small units to seize mountain positions ahead of the Taliban, and he wants her coverage to sell it. Roth works for a news organization now owned by corporate interests, and she worries she is being used to carry the government's message. In Afghanistan, two soldiers, Arian Finch and Ernest Rodriguez, university friends who enlisted after graduating, take part in that operation. Their former professor, Stephen Malley, meets a bright but disengaged student, Todd Hayes, and tells him about the two men.
Cast
- David Peaseas Soldier
- Heidi Jansonas Soldier
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Lions for Lambs (2007)
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- Screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan got the idea for Lions for Lambs while channel-surfing for a USC Trojans football game and caught a news report about a Humvee that had flipped into an Iraqi river, drowning about five U.S. soldiers. He called it an awful way to die and said he could not get past it fast enough.
- Robert Redford called Lions for Lambs the tightest schedule he had ever worked with. Filming began on January 29, 2007, with barely a year between the film's announcement and its release.
