MoviesOnline sat down with Academy Award winner Charlize Theron (“North Country,” “Monster”) at the Los Angeles press day for her new film “In the Valley of Elah,” directed by acclaimed filmmaker Paul Haggis (“Crash”). Inspired by true events, the suspense drama tells the story of a war veteran and father’s (Tommy Lee Jones) search for his missing son, a soldier who is reported AWOL after recently returning from Iraq. Susan Sarandon plays his wife Joan and Charlize Theron plays Emily Sanders, the police detective who helps in the investigation.
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In the Valley of Elah is Academy Award-winning writer/director Paul Haggis’s follow-up to Crash. The drama follows Hank Deerfield (Tommy Lee Jones), a former military MP whose son goes missing upon his return from Iraq, and costars Susan Sarandon as his wife and Charlize Theron as the detective in charge of his case.
“I got to know [writer/director] Paul [Haggis] while I was nominated for North Country. We were doing the award circle; he was doing it for Crash. And the two of us were, like, the only losers in an alley smoking cigarettes, and he told me about this project,” recounts Theron. “We kind of kept running into each other and he kept talking about it. It sounded fascinating. He had sent me a script, he was in Italy and he emailed me a script. And I read it, and the next day I said, ‘Count me in.’”
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New photos of Charlize and Will Smith on the set of yesterday’s ‘Hancock’ shoot have been added to the gallery. Enjoy!
From writer/drector Paul Haggis (Crash, 2005) comes a mystery about a father in search of his missing son. A David and Goliath theme and an underlying message about the military presence in Iraq provide a good backdrop for this narrative. The screenplay was inspired by Mark Boal’s Playboy magazine article, “Death and Dishonor”.
Hank Deerfield (Tommy Lee Jones), a retired military police officer from the Vietnam war, his wife, Joan (Susan Sarandon), and civilian police detective Emily Sanders (Charlize Theron), a single mother struggling to raise a young son, are the major characters in the film. The story begins when Hank’s second son (his first son David was killed in the military) Mike (Jonathan Tucker) has not reported back home even though his army unit has returned home from duty in Iraq. This worries Hank and Joan and causes them to hire an investigator to find out what’s happened to their son. A jurisdictional problem arises: the question is should the military conduct the investigation or should the local police take charge? And it seems that the military wants to sweep this under the rug.
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Photos of Charlize, Stuart and Woody Harrelson at the ‘Battle in Seattle’ press conference the Toronto Film Festival yesterday have been added to the gallery. Enjoy!
Hollywood.com has a video of interviews with Charlize, Paul Haggis, Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones and scenes from the film. Click here to watch now.
8 new video clips from ‘North Country’ have been added to the video archive. Please be sure to register/log in to view. 
Scans from today’s issue of Parade magazine are now available in the gallery for your reading pleasure.
The following new 2005 scans have been added to the gallery. Happy reading!
Premiere – March 2005
US – March 7, 2005
US – March 14, 2005
US – March 28, 2005
Star – November 14, 2005
US – December 12, 2005
US – December 19, 2005
Photos of Charlize at the ‘Battle in Seattle’ premiere at the Toronto Film Festival earlier today have been added to the gallery. Enjoy!
