The Messenger
Cast: Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Samantha Morton, Jena Malone
Director: Oren Moverman
Category: Premieres
What to Expect: Having spent hospital-time, healing scars from Iraq duty, a serviceman -- dumped by his girl -- makes a fresh start by working with a senior officer at a new post: the Casualty Notification Office, where he breaks bad news about those officers who didn’t make it.
What Caught Our Eye: From her noted screen debut in Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown, Samantha Morton has made an art out of channeling forlorn quirkiness. In this dramedy and teamed with Foster and Harrelson, the off-beat actor trio is destined to start buzz.