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Must end February 18

Nominated for an Academy Award: Best Supporting Actor, Woody Harrelson

This is a fully felt, morally alert, marvelously acted piece of work. Despite the grim subject, it’s a sweet-tempered movie, with moments of explosive humor—and entertainment. David Denby, The New Yorker

Its truths are personal. It means to shake you. And does. Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

Will Montgomery (Ben Foster), a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant who has just returned home from a tour in Iraq and is assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification service. Partnered with fellow officer Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson) to bear the bad news to the loved ones of fallen soldiers, Will faces the challenge of completing his mission while seeking to find comfort and healing back on the home front. When he finds himself drawn to Olivia (Samantha Morton), to whom he has just delivered the news of her husband’s death, Will’s emotional detachment begins to dissolve and the film reveals itself as a surprising, humorous, moving and very human portrait of grief, friendship and survival.

dir. Oren Moverman w/ Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Samantha Morton, Jena Malone, Steve Buscimi, 1h52min