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Beirut (2018)

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Caught in the crossfires of civil war, CIA operatives must send a former U.S. diplomat to negotiate for the life of a friend he left behind.

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Director:

Brad Anderson

Writer:

Tony Gilroy
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1 nomination.

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14 October 2020 | questl-18592
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| From Beirut With Love
I quite like John Hamm. The man has this natural charm about him, he just seems like a nice, fun guy to the point that even when he's not great, he's still enjoyable. Beirut is a great example of that because the movie itself is kinda underwhelming but I still enjoyed him in it for the most part. Can't say the same for Pike. I don't know what it is but most of her performances annoy me and this wasn't an exception. That's really the story of Beirut though. There are times when it's good, clever and entertaining and then times when it's just soooo bad and the rest of the time it's just super generic. Nothing is ventured and nothing is really gained.

This is a tough one because I want to call it background noise but that doesn't work because there are things happening and it wouldn't work if you don't pay attention, but it's not really worth giving your attention either so it's stuck in this weird limbo space of only really being suitable for people that just want to watch it for some reason. Definitely not one I'd recommend paying any money on, if you can't at least check it out for free first then don't bother.

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When this movie initially failed to generate a studio green light around the early 1990s, screenwriter Tony Gilroy put the screenplay aside and moved on. Cut to 2003, when Radar Pictures producer Mike Weber came across the script. "It's one of the first things I read when I started at Radar," Weber recalled. "The script was great but I wondered how I could ever make Beirut, given that all the things that are challenging about getting it made are also the things that make it so good. Over the years I always had 'Beirut' written on a Post-it note stuck to the corner of my computer screen." The project graduated from a Post-it note to a commercially viable project after 'Argo' came out in 2012.

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Mason Skiles: You're not hallucinating. It's me Mason.
Mason Skiles: I don't want to be anywhere near this murdering fuck
Mason Skiles: Today is you're lucky night... YOU SON OF A WHORE!

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Several of the vehicles are from the wrong era, specifically a Cadillac limousine in the 1972 scenes, and a Jeep Wrangler in the 1982 scenes.

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All Out of Love
Written by Clive Davis & Graham Russell
Performed by Zineb Srairi, Yasser Dway & Noureddine Tsouli

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Genres

Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller

Details

Release Date:

11 April 2018

Language

English, Arabic, French

Country of Origin

USA

Filming Locations

Tangier, Morocco

Box Office

Opening Weekend USA:

$1,734,497 15 April 2018

Gross USA:

$5,019,226

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$7,509,436

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