The Men Who Stare at Goats (film)
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| Directed by | Grant Heslov |
| Produced by | Paul Lister George Clooney Grant Heslov |
| Screenplay by | Peter Straughan |
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The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson |
| Starring | George Clooney Jeff Bridges Ewan McGregor Kevin Spacey |
| Music by | Rolfe Kent |
| Cinematography | Robert Elswit |
| Edited by | Tatiana S. Riegel |
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Overture Films (US) Momentum Pictures (UK) |
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94 minutes |
| Country | United States United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $24 million |
| Box office | $68,968,688 |
The Men Who Stare at Goats is a 2009 British-American war parody comedy film directed by Grant Heslov. It is a fictionalized version of Jon Ronson's 2004 book of an investigation into attempts by the U.S. military to employ psychic powers as a weapon. The film stars George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges and Kevin Spacey, and was produced by Clooney's and Heslov's production company Smokehouse Pictures.
The film premiered at the 66th Venice International Film Festival on September 8, 2009, and went on general release in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, and Italy on November 6, 2009.
In a short prelude, U.S. Army General Hopgood is painfully thwarted in an attempt to pass paranormally through a solid wall by simply running into it. The film then follows Ann Arbor Daily Telegram reporter Bob Wilton, whose wife leaves him for the newspaper's editor. Seeking an escape, Bob flies to Kuwait to report on the Iraq War and to prove to his wife and himself that he is a man. However, he stumbles onto the story of a lifetime when he meets a retired U.S. Army Special Forces operator, Lyn Cassady, who reveals that he was part of a U.S. Army unit training psychic spies (or "Jedi Warriors") to develop a range of parapsychological skills including invisibility, remote viewing, and phasing. The back story is told mainly through flashbacks.
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