I'll be honest with you: I never would have cast Rachel McAdams, Tim Robbins, and Michael Pena as the three Iraq war veterans in The Lucky Ones. But maybe this is why I'm not a casting director, because judging by the trailer, it totally works. They're a ragtag crew trying to find their place after being injured in the war. But after that, they just don't seem to fit in, because the way this movie sees it, when veterans return from Iraq they are faced with either insincere gratitude ("Thanks for what you're doing over there" is repeated several times, humorously, in the trailer) or that ridiculous know-it-all brand of ignorance ("Well, of course it's messy. It's a war!"). I'd like to think these two reactions don't tell the whole story of our nation's reaction to Iraq war veterans, but sadly, I'm not convinced it's all that far from the truth -- and those negative reactions probably seem amplified to injured veterans who have to hear them day in and day out. It is more than a little contrived (keeping them all together instead of watching them going their separate ways because the rental car place ran out of cars, for example), but the point is likely a good one, and it looks to be funny and poignant at times along the way.

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