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Date Mar 15, 2012
Time 5:30 pm
Location Krannert Art Museum (Room 62) / 500 East Peabody Drive, Champaign
Cost Free
Sponsor Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities
E-Mail iprh@illinois.edu
Phone (217) 244-3344
Event type Academic
Views 5477
Originating Calendar Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH)
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1999, dir. David O. Russell; starring George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, Spike Jonze, and Nora Dunn (114 min.)
At the end of the Persian Gulf War in 1991, weary soldiers find a treasure map that they believe leads to a bunker containing gold bullion plundered from Kuwait, and they embark on a journey through the Iraqi desert and postwar chaos to steal the gold. Russell’s first major feature (other films include Flirting with Disaster, Spanking the Monkey, and the 2010 indie hit The Fighter, also starring Wahlberg) combines an arresting visual style and unexpected comedic moments in a story that confronts the disorderly moral and geopolitical borders of modern warfare.
