Charlize Theron showed up with Stuart Townsend at the premiere of the Valley of Elah at the Arclight cinemas in Hollywood, L.A. - Theron & Townsend have declared themselves husband & wife although they really never got married officially. Theron’s co-stars, James Franco & Josh Brolin were also there.  This is the story behind Theron & Townsend’s marriage.. Townsend tells People magazine, “I didn’t do a church wedding or anything, but we’re married. We’re husband and wife.

Charlize Theron & Stuart Townsend

Josh Brolin with wife, Diane Lane (left photo), James Franco (second photo from the left)

“We love each other and we want to spend our lives together. We didn’t have a ceremony, I don’t need a certificate or the state or the church to say otherwise. So no there’s no big official story on a wedding, but we are married. … I consider her my wife and she considers me her husband.”

In the Valley of Elah is a film by Paul Haggis. It is about a young model soldier goes AWOL after returning stateside from a tour of duty in Iraq. His father, Hank Deerfield (Tommy Lee Jones), himself a retired non-commissioned officer, goes in search of him. It soon becomes clear that his son was murdered and dismembered near a military base where he was temporarily reassigned, the chief suspects being four buddies with whom he served overseas. But In the Valley of Elah is not so much a whodunit as a whydunnit, an investigation of why a group of quite ordinary American soldiers would find themselves involved in such a brutal and essentially meaningless crime. It is supposed to be gut-wrenching & thought-provoking. Opens today in selected cities.