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Entries Tagged as 'Military'

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

June 8th, 2008 · 11 Comments

 
Synopsis
In April 1805 off the coast of Brazil, the HMS Surprise – 28 guns and 97 souls – has been ordered by the British Royal Navy to intercept the Acheron, a French vessel intent on carrying Napoleon’s war […]

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Tags: Based on novel · Master and pupil · Military · No opening credits · Sword fight

The Iron Giant (1999)

April 30th, 2008 · 4 Comments

 
Synopsis
As Sputnik orbits Earth in the year 1957, something from outer space plummets through the eye of a storm and lands in the waters off the coast of “Rockwell,” Maine. The […]

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Tags: Animation · Based on novel · Military · Mother/son relationship · No opening credits · Paranoia · Small town · Waitress

A Very Long Engagement (2004)

April 27th, 2008 · 6 Comments

 
Synopsis
On the 6th of January 1917, five condemned French soldiers are taken to a trench in Somme. A carpenter, a welder, a farmer, a Corsican pimp, and a young lighthouse keeper named Manech (Gaspard Ulliel) have each been court-martialed […]

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Tags: Based on novel · Femme fatale · Military · Train

Coming Home (1978)

April 24th, 2008 · 4 Comments

 
Synopsis
Luke Martin (Jon Voight) is at the pool table of a VA hospital with the other disabled veterans, who start to talk about whether they’d go back to fight if they could. One of the vets states that this logic makes sense to him […]

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Tags: Ambiguous ending · Military · Prostitute · Unconventional romance