Date: June 6
Time: 7:30 P.M.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams
Rated: R (strong language, sexual content & some drug use); 97 minutes
Based on the true story of how Charlie Wilson (Hanks), an alcoholic womanizer and Texas congressman, persuaded the CIA to train and arm resistance fighters in Afghanistan to fend off the Soviet Union. With the help of rogue CIA agent, Gust Avrakotos (Hoffman), they supplied money, training and military experts that turned the ill-equipped Afghan freedomfighters into a force that brought the Red Army to a stalemate and set the stage for the conflicts in the Middle East that still rage to this day.