The Men Who Stare at Goats

With a freshly-failed marriage behind him, rookie reporter Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor) decides to lose himself in the romance of war by travelling to Iraq to report from the front line. Bob gets more than he bargains for when he meets Lyn Cassady (George Clooney), a 'psychic' special forces agent who reveals the existence of a secret, New Age-influenced military unit whose goal is to put an end to war by using mind control techniques, peace and love as taught in Vietnam in the early 1970s by 'New Earth Army' founder Bill Django (Jeff Bridges). When Bob and Lyn set out together across the Kuwait border into Iraq, they get kidnapped and end up in a secret desert training camp run by Django's treacherous former student Larry Hooper (Kevin Spacey), who is running a lab of bizarre paranormal experiments aided by his former mentor, now a spaced-out alcoholic. (Momentum Pictures)