Gjør deg klar for nervepirrende spenning når Mark Wahlberg fyller skjermen i sin mest overbevisende rolle så langt i filmen "Snikskytter". Den velansette tidligere skarpskytteren og US-marine-helten Bob Lee Swagger lar seg overtale til et siste oppdrag for å stanse et attentatforsøk mot presidenten. Men så skjer det utenkelige: Han blir lurt og ender selv opp som mistenkt for drapsforsøket Fast bestemt på å bevise sin uskyld må den tøffe helten flykte fra både politi og spesialenheter samt den mystiske organisasjonen som ønsker livet av ham. Antoine Fuqua, regissøren bak "Training Day", gir oss en gripende film med Danny Glover og Michael Pena i noen av birollene. Kritiker Joel Siegel i det amerikanske TV-programmet Good Morning America kaller filmen for en "thriller ... fyIt med spenning så det holder":
Will Montgomery, a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant who has returned home from Iraq, is assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification service. Montgomery is partnered with Captain Tony Stone, to give notice to the families of fallen soldiers. The Sergeant is drawn to Olivia Pitterson, to whom he has delivered news of her husband’s death.
Just before Christmas, department store clerk Steve Mason meets big spending customer Connie Ennis, who's actually a comparison shopper sent by another store. Steve lets her go, which gets him fired. They spend the afternoon together, which doesn't sit well with Connie's steady suitor, Carl, when he finds out, but delights her young son Timmy, who quickly takes to Steve.
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to be married and won't leave his wife. Her older brother tries to marry off his children and hang on to/ extend his farm through an advantageous marriage in the face of threatened land confiscation and the desire of his children to get comfortable urban jobs instead of the backbreaking work in the paddy fields under parental control.
Three former marines have a hard time readjusting to civilian life. Perry can't deal with the loss of the use of his legs. William is in trouble with bad debts. And Cliff can't decide what he wants to do with his life, although he gets encouragement from war widow Pat Ruscomb.
An English charwoman, believing herself protected by a magic eye amulet, travels to Nazi Germany to personally assassinate Adolf Hitler.
A young bride tries to rebuild her life after she learns her husband has been killed in the war.
A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband's death.
A well-respected drama teacher confesses to his housekeeper that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has left him impotent. With the coming of spring, the sympathetic housekeeper suggests that the Master observe the Yobai , a custom in which the young men of a village steal into the bedrooms of susceptible women to have sex.
A story about the love and subsequent life story of agronom Elmer Oras and Margi Kaski and their son. The story has its origins just before the Winter War. After a brief encounter, both fell in love. As a result of this love affair, Margit gets pregnant Soon the war breaks out and Elmer has to go the front. As the war goes on, Elmer does not return from a patrol mission behind the enemy lines. After the war times are hard for Margit and his fatherless son.
