In the Valley of Elah
HistoryDramaThrillerCrimeMystery
6.794/10
|US
|en
|124 min
Release Date: 2007-09-14
Overview - A career officer and his wife work with a police detective to uncover the truth behind their son's disappearance following his return from a tour of duty in Iraq.
Production Companies
Warner Independent PicturesNALA FilmsSummit EntertainmentSamuels MediaBlackfriars Bridge Films
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Kenneth Axel Carlsson
8.5/10
A soldier disappears after he has come back from Iraq. His father, Hank Deerfield (Tommy Lee Jones), is alerted and sets off in the hopes of finding his son. He soon finds out that his son was actually killed, brutally you might say, his body cut up and burned. The evidence lead in no real directions, but it soon becomes apparent that his army bodies are lying, also, the images that Hank recovers ...
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CinemaSerf
6/10
When “Hank” (Tommy Lee Jones) gets a call to say that his soldier son “Mike” has gone awol shortly after his return to the USA from Iraq, he sets off to track him down. Initially, he hits a wall of indifference from investigators but then an hacked-up body is discovered and quickly identified as the missing man. Together with police officer “Sanders” (Charlize Theron) - who is, herself, having to ...
