Charlie Wilson's War

The fall of the Soviet empire was the work of one man. Charlie Wilson. A whoremonger, an alcoholic, an occasional drug user and a congressman who managed to drive the Red Army out of Afghanistan and thus started the rapid collapse of the communist empire. All he had to do was supply the poorly armed Afghan resistance with better weapons.

The story, which is too crazy not to be true, was directed by Oscar winner Mike Nichols (The Graduate, In Touch), who was joined in front of the camera by an exceptional cast led by Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman...