chinese   cigarette smoking   usa   cowboy hat   china   prologue   hit by a car   alcoholic   flashback   drink   girl   f word   father daughter relationship   1980s   u.s. president   heart attack   alcohol   breaking the fourth wall   alien   fight   lawyer   ufo   helicopter   money   cia   scene during end credits   surveillance   epilogue   lesbian   based on true story   memory   split screen   decision   alien contact   space   tv news   office   terrorism   talking to the camera   brushing teeth   wine   computer   politics   military officer   drunk driving   overhead camera shot   treachery   colonel   u.s. soldier   political campaign   twin towers   world trade center manhattan new york city   fast motion scene   u.s. congress   attack   washington d.c.   documentary footage   reckless driving   language barrier   reference to the lone ranger   u.s. government   extraterrestrial   singing in a car   reminiscence   accident   fishing   bone   escalation   based on short story   title at the end   archive footage   2010s   drinking while driving   u.s. congressman   operation   leg   foreign policy   watergate   contamination   disease   lesbian daughter   militarism   chief of staff   physicist   september 11 2001   transplant   hazmat suit   seeing the future   wyoming   u.s. constitution   fly fishing   america   casper wyoming   iraq war   absent father   coming out   election campaign   change   booze   linguist   montana   global warming   reference to saddam hussein   female scientist   baby girl   first contact   kid art   u.s. vice president   year 1963   low gravity   bird in a cage   first person narration   begins with narration   guantanamo bay   breaking news   chinese army officer   cowgirl costume   decontamination   foresight   international relations   linguistics   military aggression   news channel   palindrome   reference to abbott and costello   reference to the united nations   reference to the university of california at berkeley   sanskrit   theoretical physicist   text on screen   american   car accident   intrigue   reference to william shakespeare   death   doctor   hospital   explosion   1970s   united states of america   written by director   flash forward   one word title   nonlinear timeline   voice over narration   henry kissinger character   9 11   al qaeda   antonin scalia character   broken   broken bone   colin powell character   companion   condoleezza rice character   dennis hastert character   dick cheney character   donald rumsfeld chracter   driving while intoxicated   dropout   dui   fake documentary footage   fake end credits within film   fake home movie   foreign   future wife   george h.w. bush character   george w. bush character   gerald r. ford character   halliburton   heart failure   heart surgery   heart transplant   hit by a van   inebriated   intoxicated   isis   islamic state   karl rove character   killed by a car   lineman   liz cheney character   lynne cheney character   mary cheney character   narrated from the grave   new life   new start in life   crying woman   man wears eyeglasses   based on real person   based on real people   husband wife relationship   montage   osama bin laden   pentagon   policy   political leader   political opposition   politician as protagonist   pulled over   reference to abu musab al zarqawi   reference to jeb bush   reference to kirkuk iraq   reference to osama bin laden   reference to shakespeare's richard iii   reference to tonto   reference to world war three   republican party   rise   rush limbaugh character   shattered bone   sweetheart   terrorist attack   think tank   transplant operation   u.s. department of defense   ultimatum   unitary executive theory   united states   us   white house washington d.c.   work accident   worker   tragic event   voice over   telephone call   sister sister relationship   wife   terrorist   slow motion scene   telephone   drinking   drunkenness   death of daughter   spacecraft   torture   horse   horse riding   rifle   mother daughter relationship   shooting   no opening credits   threat   male protagonist   watching tv   american politics