Red Dawn (2012)

A group of teenagers look to save their town from an invasion of North Korean soldiers.

Director:

Dan Bradley

Writers:

Carl Ellsworth (screenplay), Jeremy Passmore (screenplay),

Stars:

Chris Hemsworth, Josh Peck, Josh Hutcherson

1 win & 3 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Chris Hemsworth	...	Jed Eckert
Josh Peck	...	Matt Eckert
Josh Hutcherson	...	Robert Kitner
Adrianne Palicki	...	Toni Walsh
Isabel Lucas	...	Erica Martin
Connor Cruise	...	Daryl Jenkins
Edwin Hodge	...	Danny
Brett Cullen	...	Tom Eckert
Alyssa Diaz	...	Julie
Julian Alcaraz	...	Greg
Will Yun Lee	...	Captain Cho
Jeffrey Dean Morgan	...	Tanner
Fernando Chien	...	Lt. Pak
Kenneth Choi	...	Smith
Matt Gerald	...	Hodges

Storyline

A group of teenagers look to save their town from an invasion of North Korean soldiers.

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Plot Keywords:

teenager | invasion | north korean | soldier | tank | 

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Taglines:

Welcome to the home of the brave.

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Genres:

Action

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for sequences of intense war violence and action, and for language

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English Korean

Release Date:

21 November 2012 (USA)

Also Known As:

Amanhecer Violento

Filming Locations:

Raleigh Michigan Studios- 1999 Centerpoint Parkway, Pontiac, Michigan, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$65,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$14,276,668 (USA) (21 November 2012)

Gross:

$44,800,706 (USA) (15 February 2013)

Company Credits

Production Co:

FilmDistrict, Contrafilm, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

93 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital Datasat SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The invading army in the original 1984 movie was the Soviet Union, which no longer exists, and Cuba. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) was chosen as the enemy in this updated version.

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Goofs

When Captain Cho gets in his vehicle at the beginning of the first chase scene, he closes the door with a loud slam. However, the door is clearly a standard HMMWV soft door with a plastic door handle and would not make such a noise.

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Quotes

Jed Eckert: Marines don't die, they go to hell and regroup.

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Connections

Featured in Bad Movie Beatdown: Review of 2012 (2013)

User Reviews

waste of time

I was not going to talk about this moving until I saw one of the actors interviewed on CNN. He talked about making it better than the original because today's audiences are more sophisticated that they were 30 years ago and need a better story and acting. Please, this movie is full of special effects and CGI, the acting is sub par and, it's just a bad, bad movie. If this movies shows anything, it's that Hollywood has no respect for audiences and just recycles an old movie, loads it with pretty faces and special effects, makes it PC and throws it out at audiences. Seems that every year, Hollywood throws out trash like this, fills it with CGI and special effects, lot's of fires and explosions and calls it "art".

A complete waste of time unless you are a male in his early teens.

if a movie could get 0 stars, that's what I would give this movie. It will be in the bargain bin at Walmart for .49 Even at this price, it's not worth the money.