Gunner Palace (2005)

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Rating: PG-13
Release Date: Mar 4, 2005
Running Time: 85 mins.
Additional Notes: dialogue English
Country Of Origin: Germany
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
The lives of the 2/3 Field Artillery, a.k.a “The Gunners” whose barracks are the bombed-out pleasure palace of Uday Hussein (nicknamed Gunner Palace), situated in the heart of the most volatile section of Baghdad. Captured are the day-to-day lives of these soldiers on the ground--whether swimming in Uday’s pool and playing golf on his putting green or executing raids on suspected terrorists, enduring roadside bombs, mortar attacks, RPGs and snipers.
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rating  PETER TRAVERS - February 24, 2005
Husband-and-wife directors Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein just train their cameras on the soldiers of the Army's 2/3 Field Artillery, known as the Gunners, and let them rip. Their base is Baghdad's Azimiya Palace, built by Saddam Hussein for his son Uday to enjoy the pool, the putting green, the hookers. "We dropped a bomb on it, now we party in it," says one soldier. But for every dip in the pool, the Gunners must launch dozens of raids on Baghdad homes, looking for Improvised Explosive… Continued
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rating  PETER RELIC - July 14, 2005
"We dropped a bomb on it, and now we party in it," says a soldier in the 2/3 Field Artillery, a.k.a. "the Gunners," referring to Uday Hussein's pleasure palace. Filmmaker Michael Tucker spent two months with the soldiers, documenting their lives. Juxtaposing typically fallacious Donald Rumsfeld comments with raw freestyle raps by the Gunners, the film contrasts Defense Department deceptions with the moment-to-moment challenges of soldiers fresh out of high school. A chilling, powerful film.
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