Ben Foster stars as Will Montgomery, a U.S. Army officer, who has just returned home from a tourin Iraq and is assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification service. Will is partnered with fellow officer Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson) to bear the bad news to the loved ones of fallen soldiers.

Will seeks solace back home and finds himself drawn to Olivia (Samantha Morton), to whom he has just delivered the news of her husband’s death. Will becomes involved with Olivia and film peels away layers of surprising, humorous, moving and very human portrait of grief, friendship and survival.

The Messenger trailer is up at Apple in HD.  You can view it here.

First Showing nabbed the embedded code, so we have the trailer below, too.