In the Valley of Elah

(2007)

★ 6.8 IMDb · 1,130 votes

Genres: History, Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery

Year: 2007

Runtime: 121 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Paul Haggis

Cast: Томми Ли Джонс, Шарлиз Терон, Сьюзан Сарандон, Фрэнсис Фишер, Джеймс Франко, Джонатан Такер, Джейсон Патрик, Джош Бролин, Уэс Чэтэм, Джейк МакЛафлин

Plot

A career officer and his wife work with a police detective to uncover the truth behind their son's disappearance following his return from a tour of duty in Iraq.

In Monroe, Tennessee, Hank Deerfield, an aging warrior, gets a call that his son, just back from 18 months' fighting in Iraq, is missing from his base. Hank drives to Fort Rudd, New Mexico, to search. Within a day, the charred and dismembered body of his son is found on the outskirts of town. Deerfield pushes himself into the investigation, marked by jurisdictional antagonism between the Army and local police. Working mostly with a new detective, Emily Sanders, Hank seems to close in on what happened. Major smuggling? A drug deal gone awry? Credit card slips, some photographs, and video clips from Iraq may hold the key. If Hank gets to the truth, what will it tell him?