War Dogs (2016) on Netflix
In Miami, massage therapist David Packouz joins his friend Efraim Diveroli's company, which bids on military contracts. Their pistol order for the Iraqi police meets an Italian embargo.
- Netflix3.5/5
- IMDb7.1/10308,461 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes61%
Trailer
Plot summary
David Packouz works as a massage therapist in Miami and lives with his girlfriend, Iz. He has spent his savings on bedsheets he tried to sell to retirement homes. At a meeting with an old friend, Efraim Diveroli, he learns that Efraim's company, AEY Inc., supplies weapons to the U.S. military for the war in Iraq. Efraim explains that the government posts military contracts open for bidding on a public website, and that small orders larger contractors ignore are still worth millions. He offers David a job at AEY.
Cast
- Julian Sergias Rosen
- Steve Lantzas Security Guard
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about War Dogs (2016)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Efraim Diveroli claimed, though he later dismissed the claim, that the film was falsely marketed as a true story and stole material from his 2016 memoir Once a Gun Runner.
- Jesse Eisenberg and Shia LaBeouf were originally cast as the two leads before Jonah Hill and Miles Teller ultimately took the roles.
- Many of the incidents in the film came from screenwriter Stephen Chin's own experiences in Iraq, which he drew on when writing it.
