Nominated for three Golden Globes--including Best Picture and Best Director--and the most acclaimed film of 2009, The Hurt Locker is an intense portrayal of elite soldiers who have one of the most dangerous jobs in the world: disarming bombs in the heat of combat. Bravo Company has 39 days left in its current deployment in post-invasion Baghdad, but it will be a long 39 days for Sgt. J.T. Sanborn (Anthony Mackie) and Specialist Owen Eldridge (Brian Geraghty) when SSgt. William James (Jeremy Renner)--a renegade for whom the thrill of dismantlement seems to be the ultimate goal, regardless of the safety of his fellow team members--takes over company leadership.
He clashes with his subordinates as he recklessly plunges them into a deadly game of urban combat. "[A] small classic of tension, bravery, and fear, which will be studied 20 years from now when people want to understand something of what happened to American soldiers in Iraq." --David Denby, The New Yorker (Rated R for war violence and language.)
