Who is Charlie Wilson? | Charlie Wilson's War | Screen Bites

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You have Tom Hanks, who is as captivating as ever. You have Julia Roberts playing a oil-rich Texan religious fanatic, as spellbinding as usual. Finally you have Philip Seymour Hoffman, who stuns us with the stand-out performance of the whole damn thing. Charlie Wilson's War (2007): Dramatization of the life of the US congressman who launched a behind-the-scenes campaign to defeat the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan by secretly arming the Mujahideen.