Lions for Lambs

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 20:17 | Filled in # MOVIES - OVERVIEW

Lions for Lambs

Cast : Tom Cruise, Robert Redford,Meryl Streep

Director : Robert Redford

Writer : Matthew Michael Carnahan

Lions for Lambs, shows us simultaneously three different but connecting stories on the Afghan war. In Washington, A Republican Senator (Cruise) gives an interview to a skeptical television Reporter (Streep), unveiling a new Afghan stragedy for victory in Afghanistan.

Meanwhile, in California, Professor Dr. Malley (Redford) gives an ultimatum to his talented and privileged but distracted student Todd Hays who has become apathetic towards the material of the class.

At the same time in Afghanistan, two soldiers Arian (Derek Luke) and Ernest (Michael Peña) are fighting to stay alive in the battle fields, having commissioned in the U.S.Army to join the war in Afghanistan, after being influenced by their former professor Dr. Malley to do something important with their lives.