Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Tina Fey | ... | Kim Baker | |
Margot Robbie | ... | Tanya Vanderpoel | |
Martin Freeman | ... | Iain MacKelpie | |
Alfred Molina | ... | Ali Massoud Sadiq | |
Christopher Abbott | ... | Fahim Ahmadzai | |
Billy Bob Thornton | ... | General Hollanek | |
Nicholas Braun | ... | Tall Brian | |
Stephen Peacocke | ... | Nic | |
Sheila Vand | ... | Shakira Khar | |
Evan Jonigkeit | ... | Specialist Coughlin | |
Fahim Anwar | ... | Jaweed | |
Josh Charles | ... | Chris | |
Cherry Jones | ... | Geri Taub | |
Scott Takeda | ... | Ed Faber | |
Eli Goodman | ... | Tucker Wang |
2003. After careful consideration, Kim Baker, a news copywriter, decides to leave the relative comfort of a New York desk job and serious boyfriend Chris to accept the assignment to work for three months as on-camera reporter in war torn Afghanistan, as her news agency is looking for anyone within their ranks to fill immediately the empty voids overseas. Her only experience of being in such an environment is going through hostile zone training a few years earlier. Immediately upon her arrival in Afghanistan, she realizes that she is ill-prepared emotionally for this assignment, not only enduring the dangers of the war itself, but also the conditions of everyday life, including largely been seen by men as only a "piece of ass" and a distraction despite her being considered average looking back home and not being overtly sexual, and being an individual with a small bladder who is nonetheless told to stay hydrated at all times. She is largely assisted in navigating this new life by Tanya... Written by Huggo
Tina Fey is Tina Fey in this movie. I loved the fact that she didn't pretend to be anything else. Westerners behaved like westerners in this movie.
Many war films try to sell you the emotional experience of a war. This is an American woman's story in Afganistan. Her world is other people like her and one slim contact with the world that she was in. Yes the movie is self-centered. Let's not bullshit ourselves into thinking we can be a whole lot more than that.