Three Kings

Starring: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg Director: David O Russell Original UK Premiere: 2000 Dvd Release: 18th April, 2005 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding Subtitled In: Arabic, Bulgarian, English, Romanian

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Three Kings is a 1999 American movie directed & co-written by David O Russell from a story by John Ridley. The movie stars George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg & Ice Cube. It is an unconventional war story with strands of action, comedy & drama. The story has much in common with that of the 1970 movie Kellys Heroes. In a war without heroes they are kings The movie is set in 1991 Iraq days after the end of the Gulf War. Clooney, Wahlberg & Ice Cube play the roles of three US soldiers - Major Archie Gates, Sergeant Troy Barlow & Staff Sergeant Chief Elgin. They find a map which indicates a huge cache of looted gold & valuables is hidden reasonably nearby. They decide to steal the gold & set off in search of it in a Humvee with Private Conrad Vig. During their journey they become involved with Iraqi civilians who have risen against Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein but are now abandoned by the Coalition & are in serious trouble. The movie was initially titled Spoils of War. It was filmed in the deserts of Arizona, California & Mexico. Three Kings   at the Internet Movie Database. Posters Of Three Kings

A confident hybrid of M*A*S*H, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, & Dr. Strangelove, Three Kings is one of the most seriously funny war movies ever made. Improving the premise of Kellys Heroes with scathing intelligence, it explores the odd connection between war & consumerism in the age of Humvees & cellular phones. Writer-director David O. Russells third film is a no-holds-barred portrait of personal conscience in the volatile arena of politics, played out by one of the most gifted filmmakers to emerge in the 1990s.

George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube & Spike Jonze play a quartet of US soldiers who, disillusioned by Operation Desert Storm, decide to steal $23 million in gold hijacked from Kuwait by Saddam Husseins army. Getting the bullion out of an Iraqi stronghold is easy; keeping it is a potentially lethal proposition. By the end of their mercenary mission, the Americans can no longer ignore war-time atrocities, & conscience demands their aid to Kuwaiti rebels abandoned by President George Bushs fickle war-time policy. This is serious stuff indeed, but Russell infuses Three Kings with a keen sense of the absurd, & the entire film is an exercise in breathtaking visual ingenuity. Despite a conventional ending thats mildly disappointing for such a brashly original film, Three Kings conveys the brutal madness of war while making you laugh out loud at the insanity. ,

George Timothy Clooney is an American film & television actor probably best-known for his former role in the long-running television drama ER. He has also appeared in a number of movies such as Return of the Killer Tomatoes, From Dusk Till Dawn, One Fine Day, Batman & Robin, Out of Sight, Three Kings, The Perfect Storm, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Oceans Eleven, Welcome to Collinwood, Intolerable Cruelty & Oceans Twelve, along with guest appearances on sitcoms such as Roseanne & Friends. He played a handyman on television series The Facts of Life. He is the son of Cincinnati news anchor & TV host Nick Clooney, a nephew of actress & singer Rosemary Clooney & a cousin of actor Miguel Ferrer ; another cousin, Gabe Ferrer, is married to Debby Boone. He made his debut as a film director in the 2002 feature Confessions of a Dangerous Mind an adaptation of the implausible autobiography of groundbreaking TV producer Chuck Barris. Posters Of George Clooney

Editors Choice: Oceans Eleven, The Perfect Storm, Oceans Twelve, Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind, Intolerable Cruelty, Syriana, Good Night And Good Luck, Three Kings, View DVDology

Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg is an American entertainer & is now known primarily as an actor. He first came to fame as the younger brother of Donnie Wahlberg of the New Kids on the Block. After his brothers bubblegum pop group ended, Mark began recording as Marky Mark & the Funky Bunch, earning hits with Good Vibrations & Wild Side from Music for the People. His second LP, You Gotta Believe, was a relative failure. He was seen most prominently in a series of underwear ads from Calvin Klein & would drop his pants as part of musical show. He then began an acting career, earning extremely positive reviews. Mark has admitted to having being a drug user. When he was around 15 he injured a Vietnamese man and, briefly, went to jail. Mark denies that the crime was racial.   on his website show that he has a third nipple below his left breast. Had claimed to have a reservation to fly from his home town of Boston back to Los Angeles on September 11, 2001, on either United Airlines Flight 175 or American Airlines Flight 11. Posters Of Mark Wahlberg

Editors Choice: Four Brothers, Planet Of The Apes, The Perfect Storm, The Italian Job, Rock Star, The Big Hit, The Yards, Three Kings, View DVDology

David O Russell is one of independent cinemas most successful purveyors of familial dysfunction. This writer, producer & director first thrust his vision into the faces of filmgoers with his 1994 film Spanking the Monkey. A darkly hilarious account of a young mans sexually tortuous & seemingly interminable summer vacation spent in the company of his bored & bedridden mother, the film was a critical favorite, particularly at that years Sundance Festival, where it won the Audience Award for Best Picture. A native New Yorker, Russell attended Amherst College, where he majored in English & Political Science. Following graduation, he worked as a union organizer in Maine & taught literacy in Boston. Harboring an interest in filmmaking, Russell spent his spare time writing scripts & documenting his experiences; his video documentation of workers conditions led to an internship with Smithsonian World for PBS in Washington, D,C.. Posters Of Three Kings

Editors Choice: Three Kings, Flirting With Disaster, Mr Thirty Something, Deep Blue Sea, The Perfect Storm, View DVDology

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