Additional information for The Hurt Locker, which has a domestic theatrical release set for June 26, 2009. The film is being distributed by Summit Entertainment and has not yet been rated. The film's total running time is still unknown.
R
USA
15A
Ireland
14A
Canada
16
Iceland
15
UK
16
Germany
14
Switzerland
M18
Singapore
16
Argentina
15
Norway
M/16
Portugal
R-13
Philippines
K-15
Finland
Ölümcül tuzak
Turkey: Turkish title
Démineurs
France
Estado de Guerra
Portugal
Guerra ao Terror
Brazil
Tödliches Kommando - The Hurt Locker
Germany
The Hurt Locker
Argentina
September 4, 2008
Italy
September 8, 2008
Canada
October 10, 2008
Italy
October 18, 2008
Canada
November 6, 2008
Argentina
November 29, 2008
Norway
March 17, 2009
USA
March 28, 2009
USA
April 1, 2009
USA
April 15, 2009
Brazil
May 28, 2009
USA
June 2, 2009
Indonesia
June 19, 2009
UK
June 26, 2009
USA
July 8, 2009
Iceland
July 10, 2009
Canada
July 30, 2009
Australia
August 13, 2009
Germany
August 14, 2009
Austria
August 28, 2009
UK
September 4, 2009
Denmark
September 17, 2009
Portugal
September 18, 2009
Finland
September 23, 2009
Belgium
September 23, 2009
France
September 25, 2009
Norway
September 29, 2009
Romania
October 2, 2009
Turkey
October 6, 2009
Spain
October 15, 2009
Singapore
October 21, 2009
Philippines
October 23, 2009
Estonia
November 27, 2009
Finland
January 8, 2010
Taiwan
January 14, 2010
Greece
February 4, 2010
Australia
You'll know when you're in it.
Cut the red wire.
War is a drug.
You don't have to be a hero to do this job. But it helps.
During the early months of the post-invasion period in Iraq, Sergeant First Class William James becomes the new team leader of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) unit with the U.S. Army's Bravo Company, replacing Staff Sergeant Thompson, who was killed by a remote-detonated improvised explosive device (IED) in Baghdad. He joins Sergeant J.T. Sanborn and Specialist Owen Eldridge, whose jobs are to communicate with their team leader via radio inside his bombsuit, and provide him with rifle cover while he examines an IED. James's insistence on approaching a suspected IED without first sending in a bomb disposal robot during their first mission together lead Sanborn and Eldridge to consider him "reckless". Back at Camp Victory, James befriends Beckham, a young Iraqi boy who works for a local merchant operating at the base. The team is next called out to the United Nations building in Baghdad, where a parked car has a large bomb in the trunk. While James intensively studies the intricate bomb, Sanborn and Eldridge provide him with cover. Sanborn becomes increasingly concerned about three men watching them from a minaret and another filming them from a nearby rooftop. With the building evacuated, he suggests to James that the they pull out and let a team of engineers come disarm the bomb. James ignores and angers Sanborn by removing his radio headset, and remains with the car until he disarms the device.
While returning from detonating bombs in the desert, the EOD team encounter a British private military company. They soon come under enemy attack, and three of the British mercenaries are killed in the ensuing firefight, which ends after Sanborn and James shoot the last of the insurgent snipers. For their next mission, the team heads to a warehouse to retrieve unexploded ordnance. While securing the warehouse, James discovers the dead body of a young boy who has been surgically implanted with an unexploded bomb. James is sure that it is Beckham, while Sanborn and Eldridge are not entirely certain. That night, James forces the merchant for whom Beckham worked to drive him to Beckham's house. Upon entering the house to which he is brought, James encounters an Iraqi professor and demands to know who was responsible for turning Beckham into a "body bomb". The professor thinks James is a CIA agent and calmly invites him to sit down as a guest of his household. A confused James is then forced out of the house by the man's wife, and sneaks back into Camp Victory with the help of a sympathetic guard. That same night, Eldridge is accidentally shot in the leg during a mission in which the EOD team successfully tracks down and kills two bomb makers. The next morning, James is approached by Beckham, who is alive and well. Much to Beckham's confusion, he is completely ignored by James. Eldridge blames James for his injury, claiming James unnecessarily put his life at risk just so that he could have an "adrenaline fix", referring to Sanborn's suggestion that the mission, which James had ordered, would be better suited for an infantry platoon.
With only two days left on their current tour, James and Sanborn are called in to assist in a situation where a man was forced to wander into a military checkpoint with a time-bomb strapped to his chest. James cannot remove the bomb nor disarm it in time, and is forced to flee before the bomb goes off. On the ride back to the base, Sanborn becomes emotional and confesses to James that he can no longer cope with the pressure of being in EOD, and relishes the prospect of finally leaving Iraq and starting a family. James is next seen back at home with his wife and child, visibly bored with civilian life. One night he has an internal monologue in the form of speaking aloud to his infant son, where he says that there is only "one thing" that he knows he loves. He is next seen back in Iraq, ready to serve another year as part of an EOD team with Delta Company. [D-Man2010]
The movie is a great character study of 3 different ranks in the army. One is the wild card with the "I can do anything" fatalistic attitude who has been enlisted for so long he can't interface with back home society. Another with an approach with caution we must stay safe attitude. And finally, the young kid who thinks experience is something you automatically have just because you're in Baghdad, yet when push comes to shove, he's a coward. Great guest appearances by Guy Pearce, David Morse, and Ralph Fiennes. In addition to storyline the weapons in it are top notch with one in particular being the Barrett 50 caliber sniper rifle. Excellent movie must see.
Kathryn Bigelow
Director(s)
Mark Boal
Writer(s)
Kathryn Bigelow
producer
Mark Boal
producer
Nicolas Chartier
producer
Jenn Lee
associate producer
Tony Mark
executive producer
Donall McCusker
co-producer
Jack Schuster
associate producer
Greg Shapiro
producer
Producer(s)
Marco Beltrami
Buck Sanders
Composer(s)
SSgt. William James
Jeremy Renner
Sgt. JT Sanborn
Anthony Mackie
Spc. Owen Eldridge
Brian Geraghty
Sgt. Matt Thompson
Guy Pearce
Contractor Team Leader
Ralph Fiennes
Colonel Reed
David Morse
Connie James
Evangeline Lilly
Col. John Cambridge
Christian Camargo
Black Suit Man (as Suhail Al-Dabbach)
Suhail Aldabbach
Beckham
Christopher Sayegh
Professor Nabil
Nabil Koni
Contractor Charlie
Sam Spruell
Contractor Jimmy
Sam Redford
Contractor Feisal
Feisal Sadoun
Contractor Chris
Barrie Rice
Iraqi Police Captain at UN
Imad Dadudi
Mortuary Affairs Officer
Erin Gann
Sergeant Carter
Justin Campbell
Sergeant Foster
Malcolm Barrett
Soldier (as Kristoffer Winter)
Kristoffer Ryan Winters
Guard at Camp Liberty Market
J.J. Kandel
Guard at Liberty Gate
Ryan Tramont
Iraqi Translator
Michael Desante
DVD Merchant
Hasan Darwish
Insurgent in the Stairwell
Wasfi Amour
Nabil's Wife
Nibras Quassem
US Army Medic
Ben Thomas
Insurgent Sniper
Nader Tarawneh
Soldier at UN (as Anas 'Tipsy' Wellman)
Anas Wellman
Butcher
Omar Mario
Soldier at Airfield
Fleming Campbell
First Sergeant (uncredited)
David Gueriera
Soldier (uncredited)
Kate Mines
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Iraq. Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.
While returning from detonating bombs in the desert, the EOD team encounter a British private military company. They soon come under enemy attack, and three of the British mercenaries are killed in the ensuing firefight, which ends after Sanborn and James shoot the last of the insurgent snipers. For their next mission, the team heads to a warehouse to retrieve unexploded ordnance. While securing the warehouse, James discovers the dead body of a young boy who has been surgically implanted with an unexploded bomb. James is sure that it is Beckham, while Sanborn and Eldridge are not entirely certain. That night, James forces the merchant for whom Beckham worked to drive him to Beckham's house. Upon entering the house to which he is brought, James encounters an Iraqi professor and demands to know who was responsible for turning Beckham into a "body bomb". The professor thinks James is a CIA agent and calmly invites him to sit down as a guest of his household. A confused James is then forced out of the house by the man's wife, and sneaks back into Camp Victory with the help of a sympathetic guard. That same night, Eldridge is accidentally shot in the leg during a mission in which the EOD team successfully tracks down and kills two bomb makers. The next morning, James is approached by Beckham, who is alive and well. Much to Beckham's confusion, he is completely ignored by James. Eldridge blames James for his injury, claiming James unnecessarily put his life at risk just so that he could have an "adrenaline fix", referring to Sanborn's suggestion that the mission, which James had ordered, would be better suited for an infantry platoon.
With only two days left on their current tour, James and Sanborn are called in to assist in a situation where a man was forced to wander into a military checkpoint with a time-bomb strapped to his chest. James cannot remove the bomb nor disarm it in time, and is forced to flee before the bomb goes off. On the ride back to the base, Sanborn becomes emotional and confesses to James that he can no longer cope with the pressure of being in EOD, and relishes the prospect of finally leaving Iraq and starting a family. James is next seen back at home with his wife and child, visibly bored with civilian life. One night he has an internal monologue in the form of speaking aloud to his infant son, where he says that there is only "one thing" that he knows he loves. He is next seen back in Iraq, ready to serve another year as part of an EOD team with Delta Company. [D-Man2010]
The movie is a great character study of 3 different ranks in the army. One is the wild card with the "I can do anything" fatalistic attitude who has been enlisted for so long he can't interface with back home society. Another with an approach with caution we must stay safe attitude. And finally, the young kid who thinks experience is something you automatically have just because you're in Baghdad, yet when push comes to shove, he's a coward. Great guest appearances by Guy Pearce, David Morse, and Ralph Fiennes. In addition to storyline the weapons in it are top notch with one in particular being the Barrett 50 caliber sniper rifle. Excellent movie must see.
Director(s)
Writer(s)
producer
Mark Boal
producer
Nicolas Chartier
producer
Jenn Lee
associate producer
Tony Mark
executive producer
Donall McCusker
co-producer
Jack Schuster
associate producer
Greg Shapiro
producer
Producer(s)
Buck Sanders
Composer(s)
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