Recreating his role as a hitman, John Cusack gives a hilarious performance in War, Inc., a political satire set in Turaqistan, a Country occupied by an American private corporation run by a former U.S. Vice President (Dan Aykroyd). In an effort to monopolize the opportunities the war-torn nation offers, the corporation’s CEO hires Hauser (Cusack) to kill a Middle Eastern oil minister.
Now, struggling with his own growing demons, the assassin must pose as the corporation s Trade Show Producer in order to pull off this latest hit, while maintaining his cover by organizing the high-profile wedding of Yonica Babyyeah (Hilary Duff), an outrageous Central Asian pop star, and keeping a sexy left-wing reporter (Marisa Tomei) in check.
Production New Crime Productions; B & W Films [my]; Boyana Film Studios; Millennium Films; Nu Image Entertainment GmbH [de];
Cast Names Bill Cusack; John Cusack; Hilary Duff; Marisa Tomei; Joan Cusack; Dan Aykroyd; Sergej Trifunovic; Ned Bellamy; John McLaughlin; Montel Williams; Ben Kingsley; Lyubomir Neikov; Nikolay Stanoev; George Zlatarev; Bashar Rahal; Velislav Pavlov; Zahary Baharov; Doug Dearth; Ben Cross; Mark Roper; Andrey Slabakov; Joost Scholte; Velizar Binev; Davorka Tovilo; James Graves; Troy Rowland; Rachel O'Meara; Nick Harvey; Itai Diakov; Stanimir Stamatov;
Box Office USD 578,527
Release Date 2008-04-28 (Tribeca Film Festival) 2008-05-23 (limited) 2008-07-31 (Traverse City Film Festival) 2008-10-14 (DVD premiere)
Genres Action; Comedy; Thriller;
MPAA Rating [?] Rated R for violence, language and brief sexual material.