Season of Conflict: Fall Films Take On Serious Issues

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For film lovers, the start of the fall season represents the equivalent of going back to school. And this fall, moviegoers major will be political science.

Iraq and the Middle East figure heavily in fall and holiday films, starting this month with "In the Valley of Elah," inspired by a true story of a tragedy involving an Iraq war veteran, and "The Kingdom," an action drama centered on a terrorist act in Saudi Arabia.

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Season of Conflict: Fall Films Take On Serious Issues

Other films will look at the reverberationsof past actions. "Charlie Wilson's War" depicts a real-life lawmaker's (Tom Hanks) efforts to arm Afghan rebels during the 1980s. Because it stars Hanks and Julia Roberts, and because the events in q...

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