The Messenger

Presented by the Kalamazoo Film Society

Nominated for two Academy Awards!
Woody Harrelson for Best Supporting Actor and for Best Original Screenplay

THE MESSENGER is a powerful and tender story about a returned war hero now assigned to the Army's Casualty Notification service. While adjusting to life back in the U.S. and his new job, he becomes emotionally attached to a woman to whom he has delivered the news of her husband's death.

Strong performances and direction make THE MESSENGER a surprising, humorous, moving, and very human portrait of grief, friendship, and survival.

Starring: Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Samantha Morton, and Jena Malone
Directed by: Oren Moverman