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The Real-Life Hurt Locker

How accurate is Kathryn Bigelow’s Best Picture nominee? Bryan Curtis talks to an ex-Marine about defusing bombs in Iraq, getting blown up, and the dangers of coming home.

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Jeffrey Sarver, who served as an Army master sergeant and bomb disposal expert in Iraq, plans to sue the makers of the Hurt Locker because he says the film’s main character is based on him.

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