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The Hurt Locker

Gene Siskel Film Center

164 N State Street
Chicago IL 60601
312-846-2800
$10
  • Fri Oct 30 8 pm,
    The Hurt Locker at Gene Siskel Film Center

    In case you missed the film in its original theatrical run—and shame on you, incidentally—here’s another chance to catch Kathryn Bigelow’s viscerally charged Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker, which looks to clean up in year-end awards nominations. Though it concerns the bomb squad members that risk their lives defusing IEDs, it wouldn’t be accurate to describe the film as merely a paean to American courage and derring-do. There’s a kind of madness that comes with the job, too, where the hair-raising, red-wire/blue-wire stresses of day-to-day life can make some soldiers punch-drunk on adrenaline. Jeremy Renner plays one such soldier with a dangerous verve that recalls Robert Duvall in Apocalypse Now.

    Gene Siskel Film Center 164 N State Street, Chicago, IL
  • Sat Oct 31 3 pm,
    The Hurt Locker at Gene Siskel Film Center

    In case you missed the film in its original theatrical run—and shame on you, incidentally—here’s another chance to catch Kathryn Bigelow’s viscerally charged Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker, which looks to clean up in year-end awards nominations. Though it concerns the bomb squad members that risk their lives defusing IEDs, it wouldn’t be accurate to describe the film as merely a paean to American courage and derring-do. There’s a kind of madness that comes with the job, too, where the hair-raising, red-wire/blue-wire stresses of day-to-day life can make some soldiers punch-drunk on adrenaline. Jeremy Renner plays one such soldier with a dangerous verve that recalls Robert Duvall in Apocalypse Now.

    Gene Siskel Film Center 164 N State Street, Chicago, IL
  • Mon Nov 2 6:30 pm,
    The Hurt Locker at Gene Siskel Film Center

    In case you missed the film in its original theatrical run—and shame on you, incidentally—here’s another chance to catch Kathryn Bigelow’s viscerally charged Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker, which looks to clean up in year-end awards nominations. Though it concerns the bomb squad members that risk their lives defusing IEDs, it wouldn’t be accurate to describe the film as merely a paean to American courage and derring-do. There’s a kind of madness that comes with the job, too, where the hair-raising, red-wire/blue-wire stresses of day-to-day life can make some soldiers punch-drunk on adrenaline. Jeremy Renner plays one such soldier with a dangerous verve that recalls Robert Duvall in Apocalypse Now.

    Gene Siskel Film Center 164 N State Street, Chicago, IL
  • Thu Nov 5 8:15 pm,
    The Hurt Locker at Gene Siskel Film Center

    In case you missed the film in its original theatrical run—and shame on you, incidentally—here’s another chance to catch Kathryn Bigelow’s viscerally charged Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker, which looks to clean up in year-end awards nominations. Though it concerns the bomb squad members that risk their lives defusing IEDs, it wouldn’t be accurate to describe the film as merely a paean to American courage and derring-do. There’s a kind of madness that comes with the job, too, where the hair-raising, red-wire/blue-wire stresses of day-to-day life can make some soldiers punch-drunk on adrenaline. Jeremy Renner plays one such soldier with a dangerous verve that recalls Robert Duvall in Apocalypse Now.

    Gene Siskel Film Center 164 N State Street, Chicago, IL

In case you missed the film in its original theatrical run—and shame on you, incidentally—here’s another chance to catch Kathryn Bigelow’s viscerally charged Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker, which looks to clean up in year-end awards nominations. Though it concerns the bomb squad members that risk their lives defusing IEDs, it wouldn’t be accurate to describe the film as merely a paean to American courage and derring-do. There’s a kind of madness that comes with the job, too, where the hair-raising, red-wire/blue-wire stresses of day-to-day life can make some soldiers punch-drunk on adrenaline. Jeremy Renner plays one such soldier with a dangerous verve that recalls Robert Duvall in Apocalypse Now.

Updated 10/21/2009

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