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:

This Thanksgiving, The Fight Begins At Dawn

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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:

Spokane, Washington, 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

Originally scheduled to be released on November 24, 2010, the film was shelved due to MGM's financial troubles. While in post-production, the invading army was changed from Chinese to North Korean in order to maintain access to China's box office.

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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

Tanner: We're trying to link up with a group of insurgents working in the area. Call themselves Wolverines. You ever hear of them?
Julie: Yeah, we've heard of them.
Jed Eckert: You here to help them out?
Tanner: No. Actually, we were hoping they can help *us* out.

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Connections

Referenced in Richard Roeper & the Movies: Fall Preview 2010 (2010)

User Reviews

A parody at best

I'm sure this movie shows more or less how it looked when US forces dropped in to say hello in Iraq and Afghanistan. The 30 year old teenagers in this movie throw out mercilessly sub par dialog like "This is not their land. This is our back yard and we're going to fight for it," or "they killed our father, we have to fight or die." I'm sure that's what they said in Fallujah too when good ol' George W. sent his invading army to destroy their country. Aaameeerica, Aaameeerrrrriiiicaa!! God save them all, they do make me laugh and cry at the same time.

Enough has already been said in previous reviews about the wildly idiotic plot and lazy directing. Rather get the 1984 version. At least it had some heart in it, though the plot was just as ludicrous, playing on the strange fear of communism America has always fostered.

One more thing! Modern movies (this one being no exception) way overuse the lazy technique of compressing together various sorts of character growth sequences into a few minutes. It's very annoying and shows a lack of skill on everyones part.