Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (film)

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is a 2016 biographical war comedy-drama film about a cable news producer who leaves her routine life to work as a war correspondent in Afghanistan. Directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa. Written by Robert Carlock. Based on The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Kim Barker. Dialogue General Hollanek: So while you're outside the wire with my men, you will in no way distract them, understood? Kim Baker: Are you asking me not to sleep with your soldiers? General Hollanek: No, not "soldiers". Marines. You're not here to sleep with or perform jobs of any type on my Marines. General Hollanek: Jesus! You have got to be shitting me! You just shot a Javelin at a fucking car! That's an $80,000 piece of ordnance! Can any of you geniuses tell me the Kelley Blue Book value of a 1989 Toyota pickup? Kim Baker: Okay. Well, I'm covering the girls' school in Kandahar that was firebombed and I'm wondering if you could give me something, on background, just about the security situation here and the state of the war in general. General Hollanek: Yeah, I can give you something: This war is like fucking a gorilla. You keep going till the gorilla wants to stop. Kim Baker: I think I can paraphrase that. General Hollanek: Knock yourself out. Specialist Coughlin: I mean, there's only so much any of us have any control of, good or bad. If you didn't learn that in Afghanistan, you were not paying attention. Specialist Coughlin: You embrace the suck, you move the fuck forward. Cast Tina Fey as Kim Baker Margot Robbie as Tanya Vanderpoel Martin Freeman as Iain MacKelpie Christopher Abbott as Fahim Ahmadzai Billy Bob Thornton as Colonel later Brigadier General Hollanek Alfred Molina as Ali Massoud Sadiq Sheila Vand as Shakira El-Khoury Nicholas Braun as Tall Brian Steve Peacocke as Nic Evan Jonigkeit as Lance Corporal Coughlin Scott Takeda as Ed Faber Josh Charles as Chris Cherry Jones as Geri Taub. Sterling K. Brown as Sergeant Hurd Thomas Kretschmann as an airplane passenger External links Category:2016 films Category:2016 American films Category:Comedy-drama films Category:War films Category:Films about journalists Category:Films set in Afghanistan