Posts Tagged ‘awol’

This Christmas (2007)

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Lindo, Delroy | Elba, Idris | Devine, Loretta | Brown, Chris | Robinson, Keith | Alonso, Laz | Short, Columbus | Leal, Sharon | London, Lauren | Ontiveros, Lupe | Stroup, Jessica | Phifer, Mekhi | King, Regina | Banner, David | Harris, Ricky
Directors: Whitmore II, Preston A.
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A Christmastime drama centered around the Whitfield family’s first holiday together in four years.

In the Valley of Elah (2007)

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jones, Tommy Lee | Theron, Charlize | Patric, Jason | Sarandon, Susan | Franco, James | Corbin, Barry | Brolin, Josh | Fisher, Frances | Chatham, Wes | McLaughlin, Jake | Brooks, Mehcad | Tucker, Jonathan | Duvall, Wayne | Wolf, Victor | Briscoe, Brent
Directors: Haggis, Paul
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When Hank Deerfield is told by the military that his son Mike, who only recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq, has gone AWOL he travels to the military base to see if he can make any sense of the young man’s disappearance. Hank is himself a retired military investigator and is frustrated by both the military and the civilian police’s apparent lack of interest in the case. In the end he does manage to get help from Det. Emily Sanders and together they piece together the events that led to Mike’s disappearance. In the end, this is a story of how war dehumanizes individuals to the point where the taking of life makes no sense and has no purpose

Tigerland (2000)

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Genres: Drama | War
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Farrell, Colin | Davis, Matthew | Collins Jr., Clifton | Guiry, Tom | Whigham, Shea | Richardson, Russell | Searcy, Nick | Omilami, Afemo | MacDonald, James | Ewell, Keith | Matt Gerald | Fulton, Stephen | Cravens, Tyler | Edmiston, Michael | Shannon, Michael
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In September 1971, a platoon of recruits arrives in Ft. Polk, LA, for infantry training before leaving for war. The final week takes place in Tigerland, a swamp similar to Vietnam. Jim Paxton has enlisted; he wants to experience everything and write books later. He befriends Roland Bozz, a cool Texan with a gift for getting into trouble and for helping misfits get discharges. At least one sociopath in the platoon hates Bozz, even as the sergeants grudgingly recognize his leadership abilities. As the platoon heads into its week in Tigerland, Paxton’s body gives out, Bozz makes plans to go AWOL, and the sociopath gets hold of live ammo. Is the Louisiana swamp more dangerous than the DMZ?

Thin Red Line, The (1998)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | War
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Penn, Sean | Brody, Adrien | Caviezel, James | Chaplin, Ben | Clooney, George | Cusack, John | Harrelson, Woody | Travolta, John | Koteas, Elias | Leto, Jared | Mihok, Dash | Nelson, Tim Blake | Nolte, Nick | Reilly, John C. | Romano, Larry | Savage, John
Directors: Malick, Terrence
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In World War II, the outcome of the battle of Guadalcanal will strongly influence the Japanese’s advance into the pacific. A group of young soldiers is brought in as a relief for the battle-weary Marine units. The exhausting fight for a key-positioned airfield that allows control over a 1000-mile radius puts the men of the Army Rifle company C-for-Charlie through hell. The horrors of war forms the soldiers into a tight-knit group, their emotions develop into bonds of love and even family. The reasons for this war get further away as the world for the men gets smaller and smaller until their fighting is for mere survival and the life of the other men with them.

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Duvall, Robert | Brando, Marlon | Sheen, Martin | Forrest, Frederic | Fishburne, Laurence | Bottoms, Sam | Hopper, Dennis | Hall, Albert | Ford, Harrison | Spradlin, G.D. | Ziesmer, Jerry | Glenn, Scott | Byers, Bo | Keane, James | Rossall, Kerry
Directors: Coppola, Francis Ford
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Based on Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness, this is a controversial addition to the multitude of Vietnam war movies in existence. Set in 1969 Vietnam, we follow U.S. Special Forces Captain Willard on his mission up a river into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a God among a local tribe.