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war violence and language
Plot: What's the story about?
"The Hurt Locker" is a riveting, suspenseful portrait of the courage under fire of the military's unrecognized heroes: the technicians of a bomb squad who volunteer to challenge the odds and save lives doing one of the world's most dangerous jobs. Three members of the Army's elite Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) squad battle insurgents and one another as they search for and disarm a wave of roadside bombs on the streets of Baghdad—in order to try and make the city a safer place for Iraqis and Americans alike. Their mission is clear—protect and save—but it's anything but easy, as the margin of error when defusing a war-zone bomb is zero. This thrilling and heart-pounding look at the psychology of bomb technicians and the effects of risk and danger on the human psyche is a fictional tale inspired by real events by journalist and screenwriter Mark Boal, who was embedded with a special bomb unit in Iraq. In Iraq, it is soldier vernacular to speak of explosions as sending you to "the hurt locker."
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Who stars in The Hurt Locker: Cast List
Untitled Bourne Movie 5 Project, American Hustle
Captain America: Brave New World, Love the Coopers
Cabrini, Passengers
Crisis, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Stateside, Ass Backwards
Snow White and the Huntsman, Defiance
Who's making The Hurt Locker: Crew List
A look at the The Hurt Locker behind-the-scenes crew and production team. The film's director Kathryn Bigelow last directed Detroit and Zero Dark Thirty. The film's writer Mark Boal last wrote Triple Frontier and Detroit.
Director
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Kathryn BigelowMark Boal
Nicolas Chartier
Greg Shapiro
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Production: What we know about The Hurt Locker?
Filming Timeline
- 2009 - January: The film was set to Completed status.
The Hurt Locker Release Date: When was the film released?
The Hurt Locker was a release in 2009 on Friday, June 26, 2009. There were 3 other movies released on the same date, including My Sister's Keeper, Surveillance and Cheri.
The Hurt Locker DVD & Blu-ray Release Date: When was the film released?
The Hurt Locker was released on DVD & Blu-ray on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 .