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Beirut | 2018 | R | - 6.7.8
A former US diplomat (Jon Hamm) is called back to 1982 Beirut, Lebanon after a CIA operative and friend is kidnapped and he must negotiate his release in an environment separated and dominated by political and religious factions -- Christians, Muslims, the PLO and the Israelis. Also with Rosamund Pike, Mark Pellegrino, Dean Norris, Shea Whigham, Douglas Hodge, Jonny Coyne, Leïla Bekhti, Kate Fleetwood and Idir Chender. Directed by Brad Anderson. Several lines of dialogue are spoken in French and Arabic with and without subtitles. [1:49]
► A husband and his wife kiss in a few scenes. A man and a woman kiss in a flashback sequence. A married man and a woman hug and kiss a few times.
► A comment is made about "dangling a skirt in front of a man," to get him to cooperate. A reference is made to a woman being a Belgian hooker. It is implied that a married man and a woman are having an affair.
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► A bomb explodes outside a crowded meeting room and people fall, scream and run (we see a few bloody wounds). A man holds a gun to a woman's head and another woman tells the gunman to shoot the woman; she is taken into another room and we hear gunshots (suggesting that the woman has been shot, but we see her unharmed later).
► We see a man being punched in the face repeatedly (in the background of a scene) and his face is bloody. A man is shown bound and with a swollen eye and bloody face and nose from beatings. We see several photos of dead and blood-soaked bodies after terrorist attacks.
► A man is held at gunpoint while bound in a van. Several armed men yell at and approach a man on a street and he is pulled into a van by another man. A man with a gun threatens another man. A woman with a gun threatens a man and yells at him. A man is shoved out of a van (he stumbles but is not harmed).
► A tank drives through the streets of Beirut and we hear gunshots outside the airport as a woman screams. A tank drives along a beach where people sunbathe and swim. Many men are shown throughout city streets holding weapons and some hold roadside checks. Children are shown climbing on and playing near an anti-aircraft gun. Several bombs explode in the near distance throwing earth into the air and a man says that it is the Syrian air force.
► A man yells at another man and makes a reference to another man's mother and sister having been blown up. Several men argue about turning a young boy over to authorities. Two men argue about a young Palestinian refugee. Several men argue and throw papers during a labor contract negotiation. A man makes a comment about, "A car bomb last night." We hear reports of Israel invading Lebanon. We hear about a building housing US Marines in Lebanon being bombed and destroyed. We hear about the American Embassy in Lebanon being bombed. We hear about Palestinian refugee camps. A reference is made to 50,000 people being dead. We hear that an American CIA operative is taken hostage. People argue and yell during a hostage negotiation. References are made to a terrorist responsible for blowing up busloads of people and an airliner. A man yells at another man and throws him (not physically) out of a meeting. An Israeli representative asks for permission to destroy Beirut. A man talks about his parents hating each other just enough to stay together.
► Two young boys run alongside a taxi and they are holding what seems like a toy gun and a real looking gun. Several young boys crowd around a man as he walks through a street and seem to be reaching into his pockets. Many scenes of buildings and streets in rubble from bombings and fighting are shown throughout the movie. A man and a woman walk through the rubble of what used to be the man's home and we hear gunfire in the distance. A man stands at an airport as a casket is wheeled past him (his wife's body is inside the casket). A bride and a groom are shown being photographed among rubble.
► A man spits on the ground (we see spittle).
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