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Overview
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Director:
Writer (WGA):
Patrick Sheane Duncan (written by)
Release Date:
12 July 1996 (USA)
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Tagline:
In wartime, the first casualty is always truth. more
Plot:
A US Army officer, despondent about a deadly mistake he made, investigates a female chopper commander's worthiness for the Medal of Honor. full summary | full synopsis
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Honor
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Medal Of Honor
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Helicopter
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Desert Storm
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Captain
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Awards:
9 wins
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2 nominations
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(14 articles)
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A DESERT STORM-era update of "Rashomon"
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Denzel Washington | ... | Nat Serling |
 | Meg Ryan | ... | Karen Walden |
 | Lou Diamond Phillips | ... | Monfriez |
 | Michael Moriarty | ... | General Hershberg |
 | Matt Damon | ... | Ilario |
 | Bronson Pinchot | ... | Bruno |
| Seth Gilliam | ... | Altameyer |
| Regina Taylor | ... | Meredith Serling |
| Zeljko Ivanek | ... | Banacek |
 | Scott Glenn | ... | Gartner |
 | Tim Guinee | ... | Rady |
 | Tim Ransom | ... | Boylar |
 | Sean Astin | ... | Patella |
| Armand Darrius | ... | Robins |
 | Mark Adair-Rios | ... | Bobcat 5 (as Mark Adair-Riós) |
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MPAA:
Rated R for war violence and language.
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Runtime:
117 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
USA:R (certificate #34505) |
Iceland:14 (original rating) |
Iceland:16 (video rating) |
South Korea:15 |
Philippines:PG-13 |
New Zealand:M |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:M |
Chile:14 |
Finland:K-12 |
Germany:12 (w) |
Norway:15 |
Portugal:M/12 |
Spain:18 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:15 |
Singapore:PG
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Factual errors: The Medal of Honor is never placed around the neck of anyone but the recipient of the award.
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Quotes:
Nathaniel Serling:
Will there be a public statement of the facts when the Al Bathra investigation is over sir?
General Hershberg: There's been a decision not to release any of these findings until every case has been thoroughly reviewed.
Nathaniel Serling: [pause] Well how long do you imagine that will be sir? I mean the next time I see Lieutenant Boylar's parents, I'd like to be able to tell them the whole truth.
General Hershberg: Do you want to know how many grieving parents I had to deal with during Vietnam?
Nathaniel Serling: With all do respect sir, this is not Vietnam. Lieutenant Boylar's tank was hit by uranium-depleted shells. We're the only country in the world that uses them. We got these reporters from the Washington Post sniffing around his parents, looking for the truth, and the only person that knows the truth is not allowed to say it because these investigators are dragging their backsides. Someone has got to be accountable for this.
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General Hershberg: There's been a decision not to release any of these findings until every case has been thoroughly reviewed.
Nathaniel Serling: [pause] Well how long do you imagine that will be sir? I mean the next time I see Lieutenant Boylar's parents, I'd like to be able to tell them the whole truth.
General Hershberg: Do you want to know how many grieving parents I had to deal with during Vietnam?
Nathaniel Serling: With all do respect sir, this is not Vietnam. Lieutenant Boylar's tank was hit by uranium-depleted shells. We're the only country in the world that uses them. We got these reporters from the Washington Post sniffing around his parents, looking for the truth, and the only person that knows the truth is not allowed to say it because these investigators are dragging their backsides. Someone has got to be accountable for this.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Game K N B: (2007-03-03)" (2007)
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Soundtrack:
Angel from Montgomery
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A DESERT STORM veteran, Lt Col Nat Serling (played by Denzel Washington), is assigned the task of recommending whether or not to award the first (posthumous) combat Medal of Honor to a woman, Capt Karen Walden (played by Meg Ryan). In investigating the inconsistent mission accounts of Walden's surviving crew, Serling constantly flashes back to his own searing DESERT STORM experience and the Army's subsequent attempts to whitewash the incident, resolving that his investigation will not suffer the same fate. As Serling tries to rectify the competing competing accounts it becomes clear that director Edward Zwick has crafted a contemporary "Rashomon," complete with reminders that the truth is always subjective and our accounts of it typically affected by self-interest.