IRON MAN (2008)****

(focus on private citizen as vigilante)

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Contains 13 movie quotes & 32 Academic Words (AWL*).
Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) is a brilliant international weapons developer and lady’s man who has a life-changing experience when he becomes a prisoner in Afghanistan.  After escaping, he decides to stop producing weapons and become a one-man army of good in this part-action, part-drama story. Obadiah Stane (Jeff Bridges), who was once the partner of Tony's deceased father, helps run Stark Enterprises.  Pepper (Gwyneth Paltrow), Tony's assistant, is the only person he seems able to trust.  But are they also in love?  And how does Tony turn Iron Man into a force for good? AFI Film of the Year.  Rated PG-13 (125 min.) mike laib 2011.

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