The Men Who Stare at Goats is a 2009 satirical black comedy war film directed by Grant Heslov, adapted by Peter Straughan, and starring George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, and Kevin Spacey.

The film is a fictionalized version of Jon Ronson's 2004 book of the same title of an investigation into attempts by the U.S. military to employ psychic powers as a weapon — which, in turn, is a companion to a British miniseries Crazy Rulers of the World.

In a short prelude, U.S. Army General Dean Hopgood is painfully thwarted in an attempt to pass paranormally through a solid wall by simply running into it.

Lyn explains the origins of his unit: in 1972, Army officer Bill Django, after falling out of a helicopter in Vietnam, found his newly recruited men unable or unwilling to fire on a Viet Cong soldier before being shot in the chest.

There, he takes part in "naked hot tub encounter sessions" in Santa Rosa, "primal arm wrestling" in Sacramento, the "beyond jogging movement" in Stockton, and other activities in various cities across Northern California.

Django's mission immersed him in the New Age movement so that, on returning to Fort Bragg in 1980, he has long braided hair and a tattoo of an All-seeing Eye surmounting a pyramid on his chest.

Kidnapped by armed locals who want to sell them to insurgents, they escape with fellow hostage Mahmud Daash and are rescued by a private security detail led by Todd Nixon.

Bob and Lyn are rescued and taken to a camp run by PSIC, a private research firm engaged in cruel psychic and psychological experiments on a herd of goats and some captured locals.

Bob learns the ways of the New Earth Army, and they spike the base's food and water with LSD and free the goats and captured locals, in an attempt to remove the curse.