The Cameo Cinema is very proud to present one of the most talked-about films of the year, Kathryn Bigelow’s extraordinary The Hurt Locker. Having previewed this film at Showest earlier this year, it remains locked in my heart as the single most intense film experience in recent memory. The New York Daily News aptly notes: “The Hurt Locker is about Iraq in the same way that Paths of Glory was about World War I or Full Metal Jacket was about Vietnam -- which is to say, utterly and not at all. The Hurt Locker is a great movie, period.” The film presents storytelling at its provocative finest, and like the best films in each genre, it takes hold of the viewer from the first moments and doesn’t release until the end, and perhaps beyond. This “near-perfect film” (Richard Corliss, TIME) tells the story of a small unit of highly specialized soldiers, charged with discovering and defusing explosive devices in and around Baghdad in 2004. The film’s brilliance lay not in the actual action footage, which is extraordinary...but in illuminating the psychology of individuals charged with these harrowing missions, and the emotional effects which manifest in both “off-time” and in their attempted re-integration at home. This is NOT a documentary or a slightly veiled political drama about Iraq. This is a brilliant action film, a searing study of courage, and as realistic a portrayal of the myriad realities faced by ordinary men doing extraordinary things, as you are likely to experience on film. We highly recommend The Hurt Locker, and are pleased to offer the film for a limited one-week engagement.