Thank You For Your Service

2017 • 109 minutes

About this movie

For Sergeant Adam Schumann (MILES TELLER)--and many soldiers like him--the process of leaving combat back in Iraq was as seemingly simple as getting on that plane. But standing on the tarmac again in the arms of loved ones would turn out to be merely a first step in the long and exacting journey of actually returning home. Thank You for Your Service follows a group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq who struggle to integrate back into family and civilian life while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they've left the battlefield.

Ratings and reviews

As a military spouse, I believe this movie over-generalizes and dramatizes military life. For one, it depicts soldiers as stereotypical cussing and crude men (which many soldiers are not). I was looking forward to this movie because I've lived through and have seen the effects of PTSD in the military community, however, I couldn't even finish this movie, it was so off base. Nice try, but missed the mark by a long shot. Maybe we need a movie on the subject of reintergration and PTSD written by a military member or spouse who actually understands it?

As a Vietnam Era Vet and being involved in the Cold War systems of the 1980s, got to say this is just kind of a weak and unfortunate movie. Vets are not victims, we are citizens who decided that this kind of service is what our country needs. If you look at the state of the Vietnam era vets, there was little to no "appreciation", usually just the opposite. But what happened to the Vietnam Era Vets in general? Economic survey after economic survey shows that the Vietnam Era Vets are better off then the average population. Society was quite negative toward the Vietnam Vets, but we were strong and overcame that negativity. So the value of this film is limited and appears to attempt make the current vets victims. I for one ask Hollywood to quit this immediately and for the good of all vets, just ignore us. Hollywood go find some other group to make into victims, I as a vet do not need Hollywood to fight my battles the 1970s and I do not need you to fight them now. I am not a victim and I recovered with Hollywood mocking my efforts the whole time in the late 1970s. So, to use a quote from most Vietnam era vets: F**K Y*U

This movie comes near (on the outside) to what vets face upon returning from combat, but cannot, will not, or even approach the deep feelings returning vets face in reality. As a vet, I can say, these feelings NEVER go away, and haunt us day and night. No one can understand what we have gone through in combat, except for another whom has worn our boots in such. I thank those that made this film, but you will never truly understand the combat veteran's mind and soul.