Everything You Need to Know About The Hurt Locker Movie (2009): Jun. 24, 2011 - added Sam Spruell to the credits - Movie Insider (original) (raw)
You'll know when you're in it.
Who's Involved:
Jeremy Renner, Evangeline Lilly, Anthony Mackie, David Morse, Brian Geraghty, Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow, Sam Spruell, Jenn Lee, Nicolas Chartier, Greg Shapiro, Tony Mark
R Restricted MPA
Rating Reason: war violence and language
Runtime: 2 hrs, 10 m
Language: English
Plot: What's the story about?
"The Hurt Locker" is a riveting, suspenseful portrait of the courage under fire of the military's unrecognized heroes: the technicians of a bomb squad who volunteer to challenge the odds and save lives doing one of the world's most dangerous jobs. Three members of the Army's elite Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) squad battle insurgents and one another as they search for and disarm a wave of roadside bombs on the streets of Baghdad—in order to try and make the city a safer place for Iraqis and Americans alike. Their mission is clear—protect and save—but it's anything but easy, as the margin of error when defusing a war-zone bomb is zero. This thrilling and heart-pounding look at the psychology of bomb technicians and the effects of risk and danger on the human psyche is a fictional tale inspired by real events by journalist and screenwriter Mark Boal, who was embedded with a special bomb unit in Iraq. In Iraq, it is soldier vernacular to speak of explosions as sending you to "the hurt locker."
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Who stars in The Hurt Locker: Cast List
Who's making The Hurt Locker: Crew List
A look at the The Hurt Locker behind-the-scenes crew and production team. The film's director Kathryn Bigelow last directed A House of Dynamite and Detroit. The film's writer Mark Boal last wrote Triple Frontier and Detroit.
Producers
Kathryn Bigelow
Mark Boal
Nicolas Chartier
Greg Shapiro
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Production: What we know about The Hurt Locker?
Filming Timeline
- 2009 - January: The film was set to Completed status.
The Hurt Locker DVD & Blu-ray Release Date: When was the film released?
The Hurt Locker was released on DVD & Blu-ray on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 .
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