Charlie Wilsons War

In 1980, Congressman Charlie Wilson faces allegations of cocaine use, but is inspired by Joanne Herring to help the suffering Afghan refugees and forms a group with CIA operative Gust Avrakotos to supply weapons to the mujahideen, leading to heavy losses for the Soviets and expansion of the Reagan Doctrine, but concerns about future blowback and disengagement from Afghanistan linger. Charlie Wilsons War is a 2007 American English-language Biography Comedy motion picture starring Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Ned Beatty, Terry Bozeman and Dennis Lee Nowicki. The movie is inspired from Charlie Wilson s War by George Crile. Relativity Media in association with Participant Productions and Playtone. were the production houses involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman. Charlie Wilsons War is written by Aaron Sorkin and George Crile and it is directed by Mike Nichols. Universal Pictures acquired the distribution rights for the motion picture. Charlie Wilsons War was released on 21st December 2007 and takes a screen time of 100 minutes. The Film was successful at box office. Charlie Wilsons War was made on a budget of $75 million and it was a hit at box office gross of $119 million. The screenplay for the movie was written by Aaron Sorkin. Cinematography was done by Stephen Goldblatt and editing by John Bloom and Antonia Van Drimmelen. The music was composed by James Newton Howard.