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* TokenGoodCop: : The U.N. Peacekeepers are mostly clueless and unhelpful throughout the reporters' hunt for the Fox, but Boris does try to set them up with useful contacts while hoping they succeed and seems to handle his other jobs well.
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* CIAEvilFBIGood: Invoked by the CIA operative the trio meet.
-->'''CIA Operative:''' The CIA has a bright side, the CIA has a dark side. And then there's the gray side. We do the things that people don't need to know about. It's a part we deny even exists. It's a part of the CIA that's been working for the last three weeks in Bosnia on the Fox.
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* SureLetsGoWithThat: Mirjana thinks the trio are from the CIA, and she wants money for information on the Fox. Simon and Duck, who have no money and are not CIA, are uncertain what to do. Mirjana stand up to leave. Then Benjamin says...

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* SureLetsGoWithThat: Mirjana thinks the trio are from the CIA, and she wants money for information on the Fox. Simon and Duck, who have no money and are not CIA, are uncertain what to do. Mirjana stand stands up to leave. Then Benjamin says...



* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The fate of Simon's girlfriends cousin, who appears in a short flashback scene, is left unclear.

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The fate of Simon's girlfriends girlfriend's cousin, who appears in a short flashback scene, is left unclear.
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* MysteriousInformant: The local smuggler who offers them information on the Fox, claiming it is due to him affecting he business.

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* MysteriousInformant: The local smuggler who offers them information on the Fox, claiming it is due to him affecting he her business.
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* {{Nepotism}]: Benjamin is the son of someone important at the network, which might be why he got a job, although not too important of one.

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* {{Nepotism}]: {{Nepotism}}: Benjamin is the son of someone important at the network, which might be why he got a job, although not too important of one.
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* DonutMessWithTheCop: The Indian UN officer the trio see before Boris has a large box of donuts which he offers to them, something the epilogue admits is fictional.

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* DonutMessWithTheCop: DonutMessWithACop: The Indian UN officer the trio see before Boris has a large box of donuts which he offers to them, something the epilogue admits is fictional.
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* DonutMessWithTheCop: The Indian UN officer the trio see before Boris has a large box of donuts which he offers to them, something the epilogue admits is fictional.

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* MysteriousInformant: The local smuggler who offers them information on the Fox, claiming it is due to him affecting he business.



* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The UN officers whom Simon, Duck and Benjamin meet don't try to stop them, but aren't that helpful.

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* {{Nepotism}]: Benjamin is the son of someone important at the network, which might be why he got a job, although not too important of one.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The UN officers whom Simon, Duck and Benjamin meet don't try to stop them, but aren't that helpful.helpful (although Boris does try).


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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Boris, in a bumbling fashion. He focuses on cleaning up the effects of the war, and while acknowledging that his hands are tied about officially pursuing the Fox is eager to provide aide to others with that goal, facilitating unofficial meetings and such.


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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The fate of Simon's girlfriends cousin, who appears in a short flashback scene, is left unclear.
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* AxCrazy: The Fox's main bodyguard.

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* AxCrazy: The Fox's main bodyguard.bodyguard Srđan, who actually does wield an axe and has the phrase "Died before birth" tattooed on his forehead in Cyrillic.



* BlackMarket: The trio runs into a group. They are about to kill our heroes when one of them recognize Simon. Turns out they are Black Marketeers, and Simon owes them money.
* BrokenPedestal: Simon is now considered a cautionary example. Benjamin watched Simon's on-air meltdown in journalism school.
* CameraAbuse: The cameramen Simon uses after Duck aren't that great.

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* BlackMarket: The trio runs into a group. They group, and they are about to kill our heroes when one of them recognize Simon. Turns out they are Black Marketeers, and Simon owes them money.
* BrokenPedestal: Simon is now considered a cautionary example. example after his on-air meltdown. Benjamin said that he watched Simon's on-air meltdown it in journalism school.
* CameraAbuse: The cameramen Simon uses after Duck aren't that great.great, and it shows.



* DoWithHimAsYouWill: [[spoiler: The protagonists ultimately succeed in capturing a Serbian war criminal. They drive to a town he persecuted, leave him in the town square, and drive away. We don't see his fate, but it was probably unpleasant.]]

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* DoWithHimAsYouWill: [[spoiler: The protagonists ultimately succeed in capturing a Serbian war criminal. They drive to a town he persecuted, leave him in the town square, square with his hands securely bound, and drive away. We don't see his fate, but it was probably unpleasant. The last that's seen of him is the camera freezing on him, running and with a scared expression on his face, just as the villagers catch up with him.]]



-->Mirjana sits back down while Simon and Duck stare in amazement.

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-->Mirjana -->''[Mirjana sits back down while Simon and Duck stare in amazement.amazement]''
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* SureLetsGoWithThat: Mirjana thinks the trio are from the CIA, and she wants money for information on the Fox. Simon and Duck, who have no money and are not CIA, are uncertain what to do. Then Benjamin says...
-->'''Benjamin:''' The Agency has rules. We're not authorized to make payments.

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* SureLetsGoWithThat: Mirjana thinks the trio are from the CIA, and she wants money for information on the Fox. Simon and Duck, who have no money and are not CIA, are uncertain what to do. Mirjana stand up to leave. Then Benjamin says...
-->'''Benjamin:''' The Agency has strict rules. We're not authorized to make payments.for payments.
-->Mirjana sits back down while Simon and Duck stare in amazement.
-->'''Benjamin:''' Others in the company are, but not us. Smaller divisions, weaker divisions. You know what we do. You know who we are. You know our reputation and our accuracy in achieving our goals around the world.
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* SureLetsGoWithThat: Mirjana thinks the trio are from the CIA, and she wants money for information on the Fox. Simon and Duck, who have no money and are not CIA, are uncertain what to do. Then Benjamin says...
-->'''Benjamin:''' The Agency has rules. We're not authorized to make payments.
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* CouldSayItBut...: When Boris introduces our heroes to Mirjana

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* CouldSayItBut...: CouldSayItBut: When Boris introduces our heroes to Mirjana
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* MisplacedNationalism: Simon attempts to convince some Serbs that his interview will show why they respect the Fox so much.
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''The Hunting Party'' had its world premiere at the 64th Venice International Film Festival on September 3, 2007. The movie was a huge disappointment domestically, grossing only $969,869 in U.S. theaters.

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''The Hunting Party'' had its world premiere at the 64th Venice International Film Festival on September 3, 2007. The movie was a huge disappointment domestically, grossing only $969,869 in U.S. theaters.
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* TheYugoslavWars: There are flashbacks, but most of the action is five years later.
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* ChuckNorris: A clip from one of his movies, ''MissingInAction'' is shown twice.
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''The Hunting Party'' is a 2007 American action-adventure-thriller film with elements of political activism and dark satire, starring RichardGere, TerrenceHoward, Creator/DianeKruger and JesseEisenberg. VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory.

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''The Hunting Party'' is a 2007 American action-adventure-thriller film with elements of political activism and dark satire, starring RichardGere, TerrenceHoward, Creator/RichardGere, Creator/TerrenceHoward, Creator/DianeKruger and JesseEisenberg.Creator/JesseEisenberg. VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory.
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* DoWithHimAsYouWill: [[spoiler: The protagonists ultimately succeed in capturing a Serbian war criminal. They drive to a town he persecuted, leave him in the town square, and drive away. We don't see his fate, but it was probably unpleasant.]]
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->''"Only the most ridiculous parts of this story are true."''

''The Hunting Party'' is a 2007 American action-adventure-thriller film with elements of political activism and dark satire, starring RichardGere, TerrenceHoward, Creator/DianeKruger and JesseEisenberg. VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory.

''The Hunting Party'' had its world premiere at the 64th Venice International Film Festival on September 3, 2007. The movie was a huge disappointment domestically, grossing only $969,869 in U.S. theaters.
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!!This movie provides examples of:
* AmericaSavesTheDay: An actual team of CIA agents rescue Simon, Duck and Benjamin from the Fox.
* AxCrazy: The Fox's main bodyguard.
* BigBad: The Fox.
* BlackMarket: The trio runs into a group. They are about to kill our heroes when one of them recognize Simon. Turns out they are Black Marketeers, and Simon owes them money.
* BrokenPedestal: Simon is now considered a cautionary example. Benjamin watched Simon's on-air meltdown in journalism school.
* CameraAbuse: The cameramen Simon uses after Duck aren't that great.
* CasualDangerDialog: Often between Simon and Duck. As the story progresses, Benjamin gets into the act.
* ChuckNorris: A clip from one of his movies, ''MissingInAction'' is shown twice.
* CIAEvilFBIGood: Invoked by the CIA operative the trio meet.
-->'''CIA Operative:''' The CIA has a bright side, the CIA has a dark side. And then there's the gray side. We do the things that people don't need to know about. It's a part we deny even exists. It's a part of the CIA that's been working for the last three weeks in Bosnia on the Fox.
* CouldSayItBut...: When Boris introduces our heroes to Mirjana
-->'''Boris:''' I'm not doing what I'm doing. I mean, clearly I'm doing this, but I'm not doing this, because if I was doing this, I could get into a lot of trouble for doing it.
* CycleOfRevenge: Duck says, "It was shitty on both sides."
* HeroicBSOD: Simon has one at the beginning of the movie. A flashback reveals why: He'd found his pregnant girlfriend's dead body 20 minutes earlier.
* MisplacedNationalism: Simon attempts to convince some Serbs that his interview will show why they respect the Fox so much.
* MysteriousMercenaryPursuer: A scarred man who follows our heroes throughout the movie turns out to work for the CIA.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The UN officers whom Simon, Duck and Benjamin meet don't try to stop them, but aren't that helpful.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Duck's full name is not given.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Why everyone seems to believe the trio are a CIA hit squad. If they were, they would deny it.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Five Western war-reporters reunited in Sarajevo during April 2000. Over some drinks at a local bar one night decided to make a halfhearted attempt at catching the accused war criminal and fugitive Radovan Karadžić. The group consisted of Americans Scott Anderson, Sebastian Junger and John Falk, as well as Dutchman Harald Doornbos and Philippe Deprez from Belgium. Junger, Falk, Doornbos, and Deprez make cameo appearances in the movie as unnamed journalists in the press pack.
* TheYugoslavWars: There are flashbacks, but most of the action is five years later.
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