Injuries sustained by two Army rangers behind enemy lines in Afghanistan set off a sequence of events involving a congressman, a journalist and a professor.
Lions for Lambs trailer
- Director
- Robert Redford
- Writers
- Matthew Michael Carnahan, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- Studios
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), United Artists, Wildwood Enterprises
- Website
- WWW.LIONSETAGNEAUX-LEFILM.COM
- Countries
- Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados
Cast
The American government is taking a beating in the public opinion polls for losing the war on terror, despite the President earlier having made the statement that that war had been won, and for its earlier decisions to wage war on Iraq based on "faulty" intelligence while almost totally disregarding the upsurge of an enemy regime in Afghanistan. Reporter Janine Roth, who works for an organization which used to be a true news organization but that was bought out by corporate interests whose financial bottom line is paramount, is planning on using this premise as the core of her upcoming hour long exclusive interview with Republican Senator and Presidential hopeful Jasper Irving. Irving convinces Roth to change the focus of her story to one of breaking news: that the government is taking a new offensive in Afghanistan based on enemy regimes in Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan banding together against American forces. This strategy is of Irving's design, as is the want to have Roth be his pro-strategy conduit to the American public. As Roth conducts her interview with Irving, which is more of a debate on the issues, the offensive to which Irving refers has just begun. Two American…
