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Overview

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Director:
Keith Gordon
Writers (WGA):
William Wharton (novel)
Keith Gordon (screenplay)
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Release Date:
24 April 1992 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | War more
Plot:
Set in 1944 France, an American Intelligence Squad locates a German Platoon wishing to surrender rather than die in Germany's final war offensive... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
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The haunting imagery of "A Midnight Clear" more

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)

Peter Berg ... Bud Miller

Kevin Dillon ... Mel Avakian

Arye Gross ... Stan Shutzer

Ethan Hawke ... Will Knott

Gary Sinise ... Vance 'Mother' Wilkins
Frank Whaley ... Paul 'Father' Mundy

John C. McGinley ... Major Griffin

Larry Joshua ... Lieutenant Ware
David Jensen ... Sergeant Hunt
Curt Lowens ... Older German Soldier
Rachel Griffin ... Janice
Timothy S. Shoemaker ... Eddie (as Tim Shoemaker)
Kelly Gately ... Young German Soldier
Bill Osborn ... American Sentry
Andre Lamal ... German Soldier
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Additional Details

Runtime:
107 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Filming Locations:
Utah, USA
Company:
A&M Films more

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The mansion was actually a three-wall set, constructed in a remote area in the Utah hills. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Miller checks the frozen corpses of the German and American soldiers with his bayonet, he uses his left arm. In some shots, though, he is using his right arm. more
Quotes:
Will Knott: Griffin was a mortician in civilian life, and he seemed to be spending most of his military life producing work for his army counterparts. more
Soundtrack:
The Jersey Bounce more

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15 out of 19 people found the following comment useful:-
The haunting imagery of "A Midnight Clear", 28 December 1999
Author: ddicarlo-2 from Fairfax Virginia

This movie was on Bravo last night but was terribly edited so I stopped watching and stuck my video taped copy into the VCR. This movie truly grew on me over time. I had planned to see it in the theater in, I think 1993, when it was released but it was in theaters for such a brief time that I lost my opportunity. I'm very happy to see that other posters here were also profoundly affected by this movie. The first time I'd seen it I was dumbstruck and truly didn't know what to make of it. Like many, I'd been fed a steady diet of WW2 movies with John Wayne, William Holden, Richard Widmark, and the like. They were all of a jingostic testosterone bent and featured stirring musical scores, minimal blood, and happy endings, as in all the Germans/Japanese die. This was the first WW2 movie I'd ever seen that dispensed with all that crap and gave you a sense of how war makes victims of everybody, sparing no one it's violent assault on our sanity. For this Keith Gordon/William Wharton, Mike Nichols/Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegaut, James Jones, Norman Mailer, John Hersey should all be praised for their courage to discard ideological dogma and poignantly lament our violated humanity. They may have, dare I say, stepped upon an enlightend plain where even Steven Spielberg has yet to trod. His movies are remarkable presentations of events, but do not explore any issues that might touch upon this theme of the individual, powerless, human suffering in war time. They are far more traditional morality plays. In short this movie makes you truly feel sorrow for these dead, good intentioned German (Nazi) Soldiers who wanted nothing more than to end their misery as fodder in der Fuherer's army. I was struck By the scene in which Will Knott stares into the eyes of the German officer who's face betrays a million nightmarish images of the Russian front and perhaps some horrible deeds for which he has paid a dear price in guilt worthy of Macbeth. This was one of many scenes which conveyed so much with out a single line of script. Just the faces of the experience guiding the viewer. Mark Ishams fantastic musical score helped quite a bit to. For those who hated this movie, I'm not sure what to say. If your looking for a very heavy-handed war movie this is not for you. If, however, you appreciate the deft and delicate hand in conveying a powerful message and making a powerful statement, than you will be richly rewarded by a movie you will never forget.

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