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, Isabel Lucas, Josh Hutcherson

2 wins & 4 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

The city of Spokane, Washington is awakened by a North Korean paratrooper invasion. Marine Corps veteran Jed Eckert and his civilian brother, Matt, escape with a group of friends to an isolated cabin in the woods, where they witness the execution of their father at the hands of the ruthless Captain Cho. The brothers unite with their friends to form a guerrilla resistance group--the Wolverines--to drive the invaders from their home.

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Plot Keywords:

invasion | woods | resistance | captain | marine | 

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Taglines:

Welcome To the Home of the Brave

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Genres:

Action | Thriller

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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:

Korean English

Release Date:

21 November 2012 (USA)

Also Known As:

Amenaza roja

Filming Locations:

Polsa Rosa Ranch - 5726 Soledad Canyon Road, Acton, California, 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

When the group is talking about things they miss, one person says Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007). One stage of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009) is called "Wolverines", taken from the original movie, in which Russia invades America.

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Goofs

When Captain Cho gets into his vehicle at the beginning of the first chase scene, he closes the door with a loud slam. 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

[first lines]
News Anchor: Fears of a second recession has caused panic in Europe's financial markets.
President Obama: The severity of this recession will cause more pain before it ends.
American Man: European Union cannot "bail out" Greece. You've seen the- the government of Spain coming out and saying, "We've had the same problem." Portugal says the same thing. There's some talk that Italy may be in trouble.
News Anchor: U.S. intelligence officials are growing more and more concerned that foreign operatives are surveilling computer systems that ...
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Connections

References Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009)

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Soundtracks

Third Degree
Written by Ali Dee, Zach Danziger, Sarai Howard, Yusef Jackson, Robert Miller and Rachel Rickert
Performed by Rae/ Basko & Nomadik

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.