Based on the true story of how Charlie Wilson, an alcoholic womanizer and Texas congressman, persuaded the CIA to train and arm resistance fighters in Afghanistan to fend off the Soviet Union. With the help of rogue CIA agent, Gust Avrakotos, the two men supplied money, training and a team of military experts that turned the ill-equipped Afghan freedom-fighters into a force that brought the Red Army to a stalemate. However, the result also empowered the Taliban and terrorists including Osama bin Laden.

A very amusing take on one of histories greatest tales. Every movie that Hoffman is in now-a-days turns to gold. And he does a great job playing off Hanks (and vise-versa) in this screwball comedy that could easily be a page out of the history books. The satire version of the West Wing.