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Kim Baker
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Iain MacKelpie
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| Alfred Molina | ... |
Ali Massoud Sadiq
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| Christopher Abbott | ... |
Fahim Ahmadzai
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| Billy Bob Thornton | ... |
General Hollanek
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| Nicholas Braun | ... |
Tall Brian
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| Stephen Peacocke | ... |
Nic
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| Sheila Vand | ... |
Shakira Khar
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| Evan Jonigkeit | ... |
Specialist Coughlin
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| Fahim Anwar | ... |
Jaweed
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| Josh Charles | ... |
Chris
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| Cherry Jones | ... |
Geri Taub
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| Scott Takeda | ... |
Ed Faber
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| Eli Goodman | ... |
Tucker Wang
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2003. After careful consideration, Kim Baker, a news copywriter, decides to leave the relative comfort of a New York desk job and serious boyfriend Chris to accept the assignment to work for three months as on-camera reporter in war torn Afghanistan, as her news agency is looking for anyone within their ranks to fill immediately the empty voids overseas. Her only experience of being in such an environment is going through hostile zone training a few years earlier. Immediately upon her arrival in Afghanistan, she realizes that she is ill-prepared emotionally for this assignment, not only enduring the dangers of the war itself, but also the conditions of everyday life, including largely been seen by men as only a "piece of ass" and a distraction despite she being considered average looking back home and not being overtly sexual, and being an individual with a small bladder who is nonetheless told to stay hydrated at all times. She is largely assisted in navigating this new life by Tanya... Written by Huggo
W.T.F. is a movie which tries to belong in too many genres simultaneously, including Comedy, Drama, Romance, War, Action, Documentary, and has a statement to make about pretty much everything including long-distance relationships, politics, professionalism, cultural differences etc. etc.
Without excelling in any of that, it manages to be a well balanced movie in the 110 minutes of its duration.
Tina Fey plays Kim Barker, a real person and an actual journalist, who is dissatisfying from her career covering low profile stories, and decides to go to Afghanistan as a war correspondent for a few months, or so she thought...
The movie has a good structure. It starts as a comedy, something you might expect because of the main actress, but soon the situations become real and more dramatic.
The rest of the cast includes well known actors like Alfred Molina, Billy Bob Thornton, Martin Freeman and Margot Robbie.
Overall: Don't expect a comedy because of Tina Fey. It starts like that but it evolves to other genres really quick. It might not be a great movie but it's not boring and you get something out of the inner journey of the protagonist. How easy is to feel unnatural situations as normal when you are a long way from home...