Casting doubts

Actors don’t fit their characters in Charlie Wilson’s War | Meghan Keane

Who better to end the Cold War for Hollywood than America's Sweethearts? Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts star in Mike Nichol's Charlie Wilson's War, an adaptation of the bestselling book of the same name by George Crile.

Aaron Sorkin's script (rated R for strong language, nudity/sexual content, and some drug use) introduces us to Charles Wilson, a real-life 1980s Texas congressman known as "Good Time Charlie" on Capitol Hill for his hard partying lifestyle. A drug-fueled night in a Las Vegas hot tub threatens to ruin him publicly while introducing him to the struggle in Afghanistan that will define his political career.

As a new member of the House Appropriations Committee, Wilson drastically increased the funds being sent to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan and played a large part in the covert war there that helped to topple the Soviet Empire.

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