Grant Heslov, George Clooney team up for 'The Men Who Stare at Goats.'
It all started with an unlikely pairing of two unknowns. Back in the '80s, a couple of struggling actors named Grant Heslov and George Clooney were in Milton Katselas' famed acting class. Clooney asked Heslov, then a student at USC, if he wanted to do a scene from Neil Simon's Depression -era play " Brighton Beach Memoirs ." Heslov agreed, playing the younger nerdy Eugene to Clooney's older sibling Stanley. Their chemistry worked, and shortly after, when Clooney was invited to audition for ABC,...

Interview: Grant Heslov for The Men Who Stare at Goats: PHOTO
Last week we had the opportunity to talk to long time actor, producer, write and director, Grant Heslov over the phone about his latest film (with the most

[Review] The Men Who Stare At Goats: PHOTO
They do Stare at Goats, in case you're wondering. But, like most scenes in this strangely square, oddly disengaging film about one of the more interesting Military tales to be told in some time, the goat scene comes and goes and leaves the viewer cold, like after an emotionless night of sex.

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By: John Gholson I'm not sure why, but Overture Films has chosen to downplay the "based on a true story" aspects of their high-profile new satirical film The Men Who Stare at Goats . The film finds Ewan McGregor as a journalist looking for a story in Iraq who stumbles across a former member (George Clooney) of a special platoon of psychics employed by the U.S. Military. While many moments in the film seem outlandish and ridiculous, they become even more jaw-dropping with the knowledge that the...

The Men Who Stare at Goats | Film review
The Men Who Stare at Goats Production year: 2009 Country: USA Cert (UK): 15 Runtime: 90 mins Directors: Grant Heslov Cast: Ewan McGregor, George Clooney, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey, Rebecca Mader, Robert Patrick, Stephen Lang, Stephen Root More on this film

George Clooney stars in Men Who Stare At Goats
George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges star in comedy The Men Who Stare at Goats. Set in Iraq, the funny movie is about a group of US Soldiers who use paranormal powers to fight with. McGregor plays a reporter who comes across the story of a lifetime when he meets a Special Forces operator, played by Clooney, who claims to possess psychic powers. Directed by Grant Heslov the film was inspired by Jon Ronson's non-fiction best-seller. The film, which premiered on the...

The Men Who Stare At Goats
Staring at mediocrity is more like it Image Courtesy of IMPawards.com Director: Grant Heslov Notable Cast: George Clooney, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey, Ewan McGregor 2009 may be a year of many things, but in cinema the end of the season is filled with George Clooney. Putting his voice behind the title character in stop motion film Fantastic Mr. Fox and his Oscar chances to Up in the air , Clooney has space enough on his schedule for a “wacky character” role with The Men Who Stare at Goats ....

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An Education Carey Mulligan shines as the Oxford-bound honors student courted by a mysterious suitor twice her age (Peter Sarsgaard) in this resonant story directed by Lone Scherfig from Lynn Barber's Memoir. PG-13 The Men Who Stare at Goats M*A*S*H for the millennium, Grant Heslov's satire about a (mental? experimental?) cadre of paranormals dedicated to nontraditional means of gathering Military intelligence is a war movie for peaceniks and a treat for fans of Jeff Bridges. With George Clooney...

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The new George Clooney led comedy, The Men Who Stare at Goats, opens today and it is filled to the brim with a who's who spectacular cast that will make you find yourself scratching your head and saying, 'I cannot believe they're all in this!

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Grant Heslov directs longtime pal George Clooney in 'The Men Who Stare at Goats'
Toronto - George Clooney may be surrounded by extravagance these days, but there was once a time when he couldn't scrounge together $100 to pay for much-needed portraits. Clooney, then a fledgling actor, ended up getting the cash from Grant Heslov, his longtime friend and fellow performer who directs him in the new goofball comedy "The Men Who Stare at Goats." "He needed to get headshots, eight by 10 photos," Heslov recalled with a laugh during an interview at the recent Toronto International...

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The Men Who Stare at Goats Starring George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey Directed by Grant Heslov Rated R It's a deviously warped story, the kind that has to be at least partially true, and according to the disclaimer at the beginning of the film, it is: "More of this is true that you would believe" replaces "Based on a true story" or "Inspired by a true story" in The Men Who Stare at Goats . And while it veers off the road from being true at some hard to define point, it's...

Interview: Grant Heslov Directs The Men Who Stare At Goats: PHOTO
Anyone who doubts a mega-star like George Clooney could possibly stay in touch with his roots only has to look as far as his production partner Grant Heslov who has been with Clooney from the very beginning, even reportedly having lent Clooney the money he needed for headshots back in ‘82. Knowing that fact, one can ponder what might have happened to Clooney’s entire film career if Heslov didn’t have that money to spare. Wisely, Clooney realized he had found a shrewd business...

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It may seem stranger than fiction, but George Clooney's latest film, paranormal comedy "The Men Who Stare at Goats," was inspired by real events.

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George Clooney in The Men Who Stare at Goats Photo: Overture Films If you've seen the trailer you've seen the movie. In fact, choose any scene from the trailer, extend it, duplicate it and give it no real reason to exist and you have The Men Who Stare at Goats , a film that's got plenty of laughs but nothing holding it together. Directed by Grant Heslov, the Oscar-nominated co-writer and producer of Good Night, and Good Luck. , The Men Who Stare at Goats is an adaptation of Jon...

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Anyone who doubts a mega-star like George Clooney could possibly stay in touch with his roots only has to look as far as his production partner Grant Heslov who has been with Clooney from the very beginning, even reportedly having lent Clooney the money he needed for headshots back in '82. Knowing that fact, one can ponder what might have happened to Clooney's entire film career if Heslov didn't have that money to spare. Wisely, Clooney realized he had found a shrewd business partner and he...

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Here’s a clip of Grant during his interview with Empire. Share and Enjoy: Related posts Tags: Grant Heslov , men who Stare at Goats , videos This entry was posted on November 4, 2009, 8:30 am and is filed under Movie Clips , Movies . You can follow any responses to this entry through RSS 2.0 . You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. Leave a Reply You must be logged in to post a comment. News Projects Behind Closed Doors Featured Article Lead Article Media Site Notes...

No More Farm Animals, Says Clooney After 'Men Who Stare at Goats' Role
London, England (CNN) -- It may seem stranger than fiction, but George Clooney's latest film, paranormal comedy "The Men Who Stare at Goats," was inspired by real events. "It's funny, there are things that are made up in this screenplay, but the wackiest things are actually the real ones," said Clooney Like starring alongside a goat. Clooney's role as Lyn Cassady, an operative of the New Earth Army, required him to play opposite the farmyard animal to demonstrate The Army's psychic warfare...

The Men Who Stare at Goats: Disarmingly Funny, Vaguely Unsettling: VIDEO
[Editor's note: Enter to win a DVD/Bluray prize pack featuring our favorite titles from this all-star cast by leaving a comment on this post. Titles include Burn After Reading , Moulin Rouge , American Beauty , and The Big Lebowski .] Some movies have a premise too ridiculous to be true, and it ends up ruining what would otherwise be a great film. There’s a rarer breed of film, however, that has a premise that is too ridiculous not to be true. The Men Who Stare at Goats is just such a...

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We're told at the beginning of The Men Who Stare at Goats that "more of this is true than you would believe." But the story of the U.S. Army's attempts to harness psychic powers to create super-Soldiers is so bizarre it almost HAS to be true, in accordance with the "how could anyone make this up?" principle. In fact, I believe more of this admittedly fictionalized story than I do of The Fourth Kind , which claims to be 100 percent true. Surely there's a lesson in there. Based on Jon Ronson's...

Clooney's 'Men Who Stare at Goats' Fun But Forgettable
At times, The Men Who Stare at Goats seems like it could be a minor entry in the Coen brothers’ filmography. Quirky dialogue and a few Coens alumni—George Clooney, Jeff Bridges, and Stephen Root—populate the film, and it certainly veers toward the surreal. Though the movie gets a few laughs with its absurdist humor and winks at the audience, it never reaches the inspired lunacy of the Coens’ previous work, or even approaches the heights of similar war satires such as...

George Clooney stars in Men Who Stare At Goats
George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges star in comedy The Men Who Stare at Goats.

THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS Review: VIDEO
What happened to the laugh? Just like The Informant , The Men Who Stare at Goats practically puts all its funny jokes in the preview/trailer and leaves barely anything for the movie itself, the difference is the jokes in The Informant are still funny when you hear them the second or third or fourth time around, but by that time… The Men Who Stare at Goats has lost its fuel. The Jedi references can only go so far until it gets annoying. Another screwball comedy starring George Clooney but...

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In "The Men Who Stare at Goats," George Clooney, as one of the founders of a crackpot U.S. Military unit, wears a mustache that makes him look like Dennis Farina, and he does his best to act cool, calm, and collected -- which sets him in marked contrast to all the flakes and hysterics around him.