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The Hurt Locker (2008)

Name: The Hurt Locker
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Genre: drama film, action film, war film
Duration: 131 min
Rating: 7.5

The Hurt Locker is a 2008 American war film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal. It stars Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Christian Camargo, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse, and Guy Pearce. It follows an Iraq War bomb disposal team who are targeted by insurgents and shows their psychological reactions to the stress of combat. Boal drew on his experience during embedded access to write the…

Directed by Kathryn Bigelow · Shot by Barry Ackroyd · Cut by Chris Innis · Music by Marco Beltrami · 131 min

Behind the scenes

Behind the Scenes: The Hurt Locker (Bigelow, 2008) — Serious Feather · 18 min
7 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About The Hurt Locker! — CineFix · 6 min
Shooting Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker — Little White Lies · 2 min
The Hurt Locker 'BTS' Featurette (R) 2008 ‧ War/Action ‧ Kathryn Bigelow — Filmography Guy · 12 min
The Hurt Locker at TIFF 2008 in High Def — mediathinkRCD · 5 min

Elsewhere

More by Kathryn Bigelow

The Loveless — 1982
Near Dark — 1987
Blue Steel — 1989
Point Break — 1991
Strange Days — 1995
The Weight of Water — 2000
K-19: The Widowmaker — 2002
Mission Zero — 2007
Zero Dark Thirty — 2012
Last Days — 2014
Detroit — 2017
A House of Dynamite — 2025

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