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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 56 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 1, 2009
- Originally Released: 1996
- Label: 20Th Century Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Denzel Washington & Meg Ryan | |
Performer: | Lou Diamond Phillips, Matt Damon, Michael Moriarty, Seth Gilliam, Bronson Pinchot, Scott Glenn, Regina Taylor, Željko Ivanek, Sean Astin, Tim Guinee, Diane Baker & Bruce McGill | |
Directed by | Edward Zwick | |
Edited by | Steven Rosenblum | |
Screenwriting by | Patrick Sheane Duncan | |
Composition by | James Horner | |
Produced by | John Davis, David T. Friendly & Joseph M. Singer | |
Director of Photography: | Roger Deakins | |
Executive Production by | Joseph M. Caracciolo & Debra Martin Chase |
Entertainment Reviews:
...A carefully conceived, dramatically honorable picture that treats its subject with clarity and intelligence...
Variety
Rating: 4/4 --
When [Washington's] long pent-up emotions finally break through the surface, the result is at once exhilarating and heartbreaking.
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TheMovieReport.com
Rating: A- --
Denzel Washington gives as fine a performance as I have seen him give.
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Reeling Reviews
Rating: 3/4 --
Despite its underlying predictability, Courage Under Fire manages warmth, intelligence and a healthy share of surprises.
New York Times
Washington, subtle, moving and charismatic, anchors the movie...Zwick's movie is solid, honorable and well crafted, but when all the veils have dropped and the mysteries solved, it feels tidier and more melodramatic than it promised.
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Newsweek
...Denzel Washington is a potent actor in peak form....COURAGE UNDER FIRE honors its subject and its audience...
Rolling Stone
...Intelligent, involving and serious....Lou Diamond Phillips gives an intense, focused performance...
Los Angeles Times
Product Description:
Following the 1991 Gulf War, Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Serling (Denzel Washington) is assigned to review the background of the late Captain Karen Walden (Meg Ryan), who has been posthumously nominated for a medal of honor. While investigating Walden's candidacy, Serling is forced to face his own disillusionment and guilt surrounding the war. As he begins the interviewing process, he uncovers several inconsistencies in the stories told by the late pilot's crew. The three officers, who may or may not have been saved by the captain's actions, all give drastically different accounts of the events leading up to Walden's death. Ilario (Matt Damon) paints Walden as an unselfish, courageous hero, while the surly Monfriez (Lou Diamond Phillips) describes her as a crybaby and a coward. The third soldier, Altameyer (Seth Gilliam), lies dying in an army hospital, mumbling guilty confessions in a medicated haze. Similar to the storytelling technique used in Akira Kurosawa's RASHOMON, director Edward Zwick's COURAGE UNDER FIRE features each officer's account of the fateful incident reenacted onscreen, offering wildly diverse portrayals of Walden. Meg Ryan shines in a role that demands she play one character a multitude of ways. As Serling pieces together the radically different tales of combat, he uncovers the painful truth and simultaneously faces his own pent-up guilt regarding the war.
Product Description:
When Lt. Colonel Nathaniel Serling (Denzel Washington) is asked to review the posthumous candidacy of the first woman (Meg Ryan) to receive a medal of honor, he finds himself plunged into an apparent cover-up surrounding the actions that led to her death. As he struggles to uncover the truth, he also finds himself forced to confront his own tormenting demons. Matt Damon co-stars in this powerful and provocative drama.
Keywords:
Action
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Mystery
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Thriller
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War
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Self-Discovery
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Deception
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Recommended
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Military
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Character Study
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Melodrama
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Theatrical Release
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 132,344
- UPC: 024543010838
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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