'The Hunting Party' is Tent Pole Picture of the Month
PIX, the premium English movie channel from Multi Screen Media Pvt Ltd brings you this March ‘The Hunting Party’, a fine political thriller, as the Tent Pole Picture of the Month. Starring the suave Richard Gere, Terrence Howard and the young Jesse Eisenberg the movie is directed by Primetime Emmy award winner Richard Shepard.
On the fifth anniversary of the end of the civil war in Bosnia, former hot-shot reporter Simon Hunt (Richard Gere) mysteriously shows up, five years after imploding on live television and disappearing into a self-imposed exile. Reunited with his cameraman, Duck (Terrence Howard), who has been promoted to a cushy studio gig working with anchorman Franklin Harris (James Brolin), Simon convinces Duck to go on a dangerous journey to get an interview with the wanted war criminal known as the Fox (Ljubomir Kerekes), based on the real-life Radovan Karadicz. They are joined by Ben (Jesse Eisenberg), the Harvard-educated nephew of a network executive who is in search of adventure and a good story. Together the three drive deep into Serb territory, facing more intrigue and danger than they ever could have imagined.
Writer-director Richard Shepard based ‘The Hunting Party’ on an article Scott Anderson wrote for Esquire magazine entitled “What I Did on My Summer Vacation,” about five reporters who actually did go after Karadicz, and tried to capture him. Shepard infuses the film with a sly black humor and fills the story with a cast of various characters, paying homage to Carol Reed’s ‘The Third Man’, which was set in postwar Vienna. The three leads are excellent, especially Gere, who plays Hunt with a knowing grin that often hides what he’s really up to. Shot on location in and around Sarajevo, lending the film an eerie reality, ‘The Hunting Party’, which claims at the beginning that “only the most ridiculous parts of this story are true”, is a fun, fascinating political thriller.
The tagline “How can they find the world’s most wanted war criminal when the C.I.A. can’t?” sums the plot well.So don’t miss ‘The Hunting Party’ – Tent Pole Picture of the Month for a fun filled and action packed weekend this Sunday, 29 March 2009 at 8pm only on PIX.
