That's the way Paul Haggis, the screenwriter of "Million Dollar Baby" and "Casino Royale, " and writer and director of "Crash" and "In The Valley of Elah, " put it at Soho House last week.

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Gere is one of six actors playing Bob Dylan in Todd Haynes biopic I'm Not There, while Theron features in the latest film from Crash screenwriter Paul Haggis, In The Valley of Elah.

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"In the Valley of Elah" -- the name comes from the locale of David's battle against Goliath -- is not a great film, but its acute sense of anguish and betrayal may resonate in the same way that 1978's "The Deer Hunter" did 30 years ago.

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