Redacted (2007)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

Brian De Palma

Writer:

Brian De Palma (written by)

Release Date:

16 November 2007 (Spain)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | War

Tagline:

Truth is the first casualty of war.

Plot:

A montage of stories about U.S. soldiers fighting in the Iraq conflict, focusing on the modern forms of media covering the war.

Plot Keywords:

Soldier | Iraq | Vulgarity | Talk To Camera | Bullet Proof Vest

Awards:

3 wins & 2 nominations

Cast

Sahar Alloul	...	Arab News Reporter
Happy Anderson	...	Battalion Commander (as Eric 'Happy' Anderson)
Lara Atalla	...	Buddy #3
Karima Attayeh	...	Farah's Mother
Francois Caillaud	...	Buddy #2
Patrick Carroll	...	Reno Flake
Andrew Cullen	...	Buddy #1
Rob Devaney	...	Lawyer McCoy
Izzy Diaz	...	Angel Salazar
Mike Figueroa	...	Sergeant Jim Vazques
Qazi Freihat	...	Hadi
Shatha Haddad	...	Embedded Journalist
Paul Hijazin	...	English Newscaster
Suhail Abdel Hussein	...	Farah's Father
Ty Jones	...	Master Sergeant Sweet
Dhiaa Kahlil	...	Soldier
Hiyam Abdel Karim	...	Pregnant Woman
Yanal Kassay	...	Soldier
Ohad Knoller	...	Army Psychiatrist
Shukraya Maran	...	Young Screaming Woman
Sabrine Munther	...	Farah's Little Sister
Paul O'Brien	...	Barton's Father
Adel Odai	...	Interpreter
Kel O'Neill	...	Private Gabe Blix
Hameed Sahi	...	Farah's Grandfather
Abigail Savage	...	Tattooed Kid
Nick Seeley	...	Criminal Investigation Agent #1
Issam Shamary	...	Pregnant Woman's Brother
Daniel Stewart Sherman	...	B.B. Rush
Julie Thiery	...	'Barrage' Narrator
Helen Zamel	...	Date Girl
Jafar Zoubi	...	ATV Anchorman
Mazen Zoubi	...	Company Commander
Zahra Zubaidi	...	Farah

MPAA:

Rated R for strong disturbing violent content including a rape, pervasive language and some sexual references/images.

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

USA | Canada

Language:

English | French | Arabic | German

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:R | Canada:18A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Ontario) | Portugal:M/16 | Ireland:16 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | Ireland:15 (video rating) | Netherlands:16 | Japan:R-15 | Singapore:M18 | Australia:MA (2008) | Germany:18 | New Zealand:R16

Filming Locations:

Amman, Jordan

Company:

Film Farm, The

Trivia:

Financed by Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: Angel Salazar's video camera, as shown in the opening scene, is a small, cheap camcorder. However, during the scene where Master Sergeant Sweet is introduced, the camera's shadow suggests a much larger high-end HD camera with wide lens and external microphone is being used.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "The O'Reilly Factor: (2008-04-04)" (2008)

Soundtrack:

Voice of a Gun

3 months, 1 complaint, and commentary oblivion ...

This comment was deleted by IMDb based on an abuse report filed by another user...

I still see comments here insulting DePalma for being anti-American. Has there not been enough proof offered yet that the Iraq invasion is an illegal war? Doesn't the backlash against Bush and his dismal approval rating register that he's put us in an impossible position with no viable way out after stealing an election (watch Hacking Democracy - you can track it down on the web), bankrupting the country and sending our children into a Hell perpetrated by greed and profit? Iraq didn't bomb us, remember. Plus it's not like we went into Iraq to overthrow a mass-murderer we'd supplied with weapons up until the recent past. This should and could have been the job of the U.N. But then the U.N. lost a lot of credibility due to it's failures in Yugoslavia. ___________________________________________________________________

This is a very watered down version of my original comment. When checking my comment history I found it had been deleted due to a reader's complaint. Now, it had been in place for three months before this. It was read by loads of people who had no complaints about my writing what I did, whether they agreed with it or not. So what's the story here? Why would IMDb pull a comment after one complaint, and loads of people having seen it? If this kind of thing continues all this site will be is a watered-down and edited reflection without any descent or simply tolerate the opinions for as as long as it takes one person to complain. Read the rules, and they admit they're not interested in explaining themselves. I've looked. Granted, they own the site, but since there is always going to be someone who disagrees with your comments, and if one person complains the comments are yanked without explanation, these pages will do little more than provide rote inoffensive comments with little other than I liked it, hated it, but I can't tell you why. The worst is, they can also yank this, have stated they'll ban or delete people from making comments they disapprove of for a whole host of different reasons, and will ban you if you complain very much about items they consider have little or no merit. Sorry, if one out of fifty, or a hundred, or a thousand reader's can have anybodies' comments yanked months after the accepted contribution, then I find that very depressing and disappointing. I thought democracy supported that old quote (the gist of which is)...I may not agree with what you're saying but I'll fight like Hell for your right to say it... If this miraculously appears in the commentary section, please help support our right to express ourselves freely. Not to do so is as akin to book-burning as you can get.