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User Rating:
6.2/10   17,677 votes
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Director:
Gregory Hoblit
Writers (WGA):
John Katzenbach (novel)
Billy Ray (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
15 February 2002 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | War more
Tagline:
Heroes Are Measured By What They Do. more
Plot:
A law student becomes a lieutenant during World War II, is captured and asked to defend a black prisoner of war falsely accused of murder. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 win more
User Comments:
Hart's War or McNamara's Band? more (181 total)

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MPAA:
Rated R for some strong war violence and language.
Runtime:
125 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | German
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

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Trivia:
The song being played by the band during the musical is "Der Fuehrer"s Face", an Academy Award winning anti-Nazi song by Spike Jones and His City Slickers that used flatulence-resembling sound effects. more
Goofs:
Continuity: The P-51 Mustang planes strafing the rail yard are not carrying any bombs when they launch their attack. Then as the POWs escape from the rail carriages, the P-51s suddenly start dropping bombs. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriter Billy Ray (2007) (V) more
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43 out of 59 people found the following comment useful.
Hart's War or McNamara's Band?, 21 September 2003
Author: Noel Bailey (uds3@hotmail.com) from Longmont: Colorado US

If one were to place too great an emphasis on many of the smug and self-serving views expressed by various contributors here, it may well appear somewhat of an enigma that HART'S WAR still rates 6.3 overall. Obviously many who have voted have not posted a review. Equally obviously, to offset its many detractors...a significant number of people must have liked it. I'm one of them!

Let us agree immediately, anyone looking for a sequel to THE GUNS OF NAVARONE can expect to be disappointed. A screen adaptation of John Katzenbach's excellent novel, this late WW2 flick tackles racism, POW life and honor...and not necessarily in that order. A re-hash of the plot is unnecessary as every second reviewer has covered this aspect. It is a film to LISTEN to and to take from it what you are able. Negative comments such that the events portrayed are "unlikely," that Bruce Willis isn't the "star," that "nothing happens except lots of people keep talking," are a sad indictment of viewers with a limited attention span. A lot of what is uttered during the "court-room" sequences has great relevance in all facets of life - IF you care to listen. Farrell is excellent as is Willis in what admittedly IS a far smaller role. Willis' presence however is felt throughout the movie in much the same way as was Jack Nicholson's in A FEW GOOD MEN. (Another military court room flick)

Yes its longish and it would be fair to say it is extremely dark for the greater part of the film. It is ultimately though a worthwhile addition to other POW films. You could do a lot worse.

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