Actor Bradley Cooper is quick to say that American Sniper, his film about Navy Seal sharpshooter Chris Kyle, is not about the Iraq conflict but an intimate character study of the harrowing impact of war on a soldier and his family. Cooper said about the film that opens on limited release on Christmas day and nationwide on Jan. 16, “It is a movie about what someone like Chris, a soldier, has to go through and the dilemma and the horror of it and the battle internally and with the family.”
