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title: "The Trailer For Hollywood’s Latest Iraq War PTSD Drama Just Dropped"
date: "2017-06-21"
modified: "2017-06-21"
authors:
  - name: "Adam Linehan"
    link: "https://taskandpurpose.com/authors/adamlinehan/"
url: "https://taskandpurpose.com/culture/trailer-hollywoods-latest-iraq-war-ptsd-drama-just-dropped/"
categories:
  - "Culture"
  - "Entertainment"
---

# The Trailer For Hollywood’s Latest Iraq War PTSD Drama Just Dropped

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The first trailer for *Thank You for Your Service,* an upcoming Iraq War drama, has just dropped and it looks like the filmmakers are gunning for the Oscars with this one. Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Finkel’s nonfiction book of the same name, the film focuses on Staff Sgt. Adam Schumann, a U.S. Army infantryman, played by Miles Teller (*War Dogs)*, who has just returned home from a crazy year in Iraq — and, yes, you’ve guessed correctly: He has terrible post-traumatic stress disorder. Because why would Hollywood make a movie about an Iraq War veteran who doesn’t? That’d be boring.

The film was written and directed by Jason Hall, who wrote the script for *American Sniper.* It also stars Haley Bennett (*The Girl on the Train*), as Teller’s wife, and comedian Amy Schumer (*Trainwreck*) in an unspecified role (a machine-gunner, perhaps?). But there doesn’t appear to be anything funny about *Thank You For Your Service.* Finkel’s book was a sequel to his acclaimed 2009 best-seller *The Good Soldiers,* about an Army infantry battalion Finkel embedded with in Iraq for eight months during the 2007 troop surge. In *Thank You For Your Service,* Finkel followed some of those soldiers home.

In the trailer, Schumann explains in a thick Southern accent that he was a good soldier and his specialty in Iraq was spotting IEDs. Back home in Georgia, he’s got it all: an attractive wife, a kid, and a beautiful house with a white picket fence. His life is “perfect,” he says. But then he cooks a pancake for his daughter and makes the mistake of decorating it with a chocolate chip smiley face. “She doesn’t like chocolate,” Schumann’s wife informs him. Turns out, things aren’t so perfect, after all. Everything spirals out of control from there. Check it out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gD_zUcC0OQ

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