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Army of One (2016)

Army of One poster
Directed by
Larry Charles
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 32m
Rated
R
Rating
5.2 of 10 from 338 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man decides he has been chosen by God to capture Osama bin Laden. His mission takes him on an unpredictable journey.

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What happens

Army of One is a 2016 American comedy film directed by Larry Charles and written by Rajiv Joseph and Scott Rothman. The film stars Nicolas Cage, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Rainn Wilson, Russell Brand, Denis O'Hare, Paul Scheer, and Will Sasso. The film was released through video on demand and select theaters on November 4, 2016, before being released on DVD and Blu-ray on November 15, 2016, by Dimension Films. In a 2020 interview, Cage revealed that the released version of the film was recut by Bob Weinstein without Charles' permission and that the latter's original version remains unreleased. In 2024, Charles released his original cut of the film onto his YouTube channel, which runs over an hour longer. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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