it possible to have a good time with this film while and at the same time and regret all that it isn not . in the 1980s and a raffish u. s. congressman ( tom hank ) engineer support for afghan partisan resist the soviet union . hank be in breezy and hail fellow well met form a roguish and politically incorrect charlie wilson and first glimpse share a hot tub with three deeply available look woman . if only the film have the same air of insouciance while but apart from philip seymour hoffman turn a a cynical cia agent and it try to be perceive a patriotic too . aaron sorkin trademark staccato dialogue serve it purpose and but the story be no more plausible than one of wilson tall tale . and there an oddly unspoken subtext represent wilson afghan pal later mutate into the taliban and other anti western group and leave the world bad off than it be when these event occur .