A Private War

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Cast & Crew

Rosamund Pike
Marie Colvin

Jamie Dornan
Paul Conroy

Tom Hollander
Sean Ryan

Stanley Tucci
Tony Shaw

Jérémie Laheurte
Remi Ochlik

Hilton McRae
Adam Watkins

Fady Elsayed
Mourad

Raad Rawi
Gaddafi

Matthew Heineman
Director

Arash Amel
Screenwriter

Basil Iwanyk
Producer

Marissa McMahon
Producer

Matthew George
Producer

Matthew Heineman
Producer

Charlize Theron
Producer

Erica Lee
Executive Producer

Jonathan Fuhrman
Executive Producer

Ashley Schlaifer
Executive Producer

Jeffrey Sobrato
Executive Producer

Joe Gelchion
Executive Producer

Beth Kono
Executive Producer

A.J. Dix
Executive Producer

David Dinerstein
Executive Producer

Jason Resnick
Executive Producer

William Sadleir
Executive Producer

Wayne Marc Godfrey
Executive Producer

Robert Jones
Executive Producer

Jeff Rice
Executive Producer

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Audience Reviews for A Private War

• Jul 29, 2019

  A Private War is gritty and raw character drama about Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin. The film follows the last ten years of Colvin's life reporting on conflicts in Sri Lonka, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria, along with her struggles with PTSD and substance abuse. Rosamund Pike gives an incredible performance, really transforming herself into her character. However, the script is rather weak and doesn't do a particularly good job at getting at what drove her to do the work she did, or chose the places she did, or what made her voice unique from others. Yet while it has some weaknesses, A Private War is a powerful and provocative film about the life of a war correspondent.
  

  Dann M Super Reviewer
• Feb 06, 2019

  Pike is great, but the movie never coalesces around a coherent idea of who Colvin really was outside of vague ponderings about her wanting to do good and something about trauma. One feels that the real Colvin deserved something better.
  

  Alec B Super Reviewer
• Jan 15, 2019

  A PRIVATE WAR (3 1/2 Stars) It's nice to see a fierce woman at the center of the familiar journalist in a war zone story, and Rosamund Pike's unsparingly aggressive performance as Marie Colvin, a BBC correspondent who lost an eye and wore a patch, makes her a "Fifth Estate Pirate" for the ages. This true portrayal of a woman whose outrage led her into deadly conflicts may seem like a lot of typing at computer screens, smoking, and fighting with editors to let her get into increasingly dangerous situations, but this urgently directed film wants to shake us out of our selfie-culture complacency and ask ourselves if we would be anywhere as ballsy and brave as Marie. Jamie Dornan surprises with an earthy, edgy performance as her photographer, reminding us that he has more than 50 shades to him. It's an imperfect film, episodic but impactful, but Pike is the real show, literally and figuratively exposing us to a woman whose imperfections were matched by her passion and heroism.
  

  Glenn G Super Reviewer

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