TROPIC THUNDER (2008)****

(focus on the game of warfare)

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Contains 17 movie quotes & 17 Academic Words (AWL*).
In this story-inside-a-story, Jack Black, Ben Stiller, and Robert Downey Jr. make fun of war, black/white racial tension, mentally-challenged people, Asian drug makers, and mostly their own profession as actors.  While making a movie about the Vietnam war, five actors accidently find themselves in conflict with a real-life army of heroin makers in Southeast Asia.  To outsmart the enemy, they must use all their skills as actors, but can they remember who they really are as human beings?  With Nick Nolte, Brandon T. Jackson, Jay Baruchel, Tom Cruise, and Danny McBride.    Rated R (107 min.) mike laib 2011.

Tropic Thunder at the Forum

http://www.tropicthunder.com/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0942385/

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