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Warner Bros. Pictures
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Studio: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: Mar 1, 2002
Running Time: 138 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
Country Of Origin: Germany
synopsis
A fact-based tale of men under fire, their common acts of uncommon valor, and their loyalty to and love for one another during one of the most savage military battles in U.S. history. On November 14, 1965, in the Ia Drang Valley of Vietnam, in a small clearing called Landing Zone X-Ray, Lieutenant Colonel Hal Moore and 400 troopers from the U.S. 7th Air Cavalry are surrounded by 2000 enemy soldiers in what would become the first, and perhaps the worst, major battle of the Vietnam War.
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Julie Moore
Major Bruce Crandall
Sergeant Major Basil Plumley
2nd Lieutenant Jack Geoghegan
Barbara Geoghegan
Joseph Galloway
Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Huu An
Sergeant Ernie Savage
1st Lieutenant Charlie Hastings
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reviews
February 26, 2002
We Were Soldiers, an unabashedly pro-military look at the first major battle of the Vietnam era, has an impact that transcends politics and some dramatic overreaching by writer-director Randall Wallace. The film is based on the book We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young, by Hal Moore, the lieutenant colonel who led 400 of his men into battle at Landing Zone X-Ray in Ia Drang Valley in November 1965, and by Joseph Galloway, the civilian reporter and photographer who accompanied them. Mel Gibson,…
Based on the best-selling novel by the real-life Lt. Col. Harold Moore and Joe Galloway, Soldiers is a war film through and through. Writer/director Randall Wallace (writer of Braveheart) once again teams up with Gibson to give the overall picture of what being a soldier is like, juggling home and family with sense of duty. Yet, the scenes on the home front turn into pure mush most of the time (''Daddy, what is war?'') and get very preachy (''Watch the back of the man next to you, as he will…
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