Review by Dana Jung
Most people don.t know, or at least know very little, about the Pow camps that the United States
maintained during World War II. Numbering in the hundreds, in nearly every state of the Union, these
camps at their peak housed almost half a million German and Japanese prisoners. Films based on these
camps have been few (Summer Of My German Soldier, Farewell To Manzanar, Come See The
Paradise) and mostly grim reminders of a dark period in American history. Fort McCoy, a new movie
co-directed by Michael Worth and writer/star Kate Connor, tells a fact-based story set against the
backdrop of the Army base of the title, of one summer in the life of an American family, circa 1944.
The Stirns move to Fort McCoy, Wisconsin when the father, Frank (Eric Stoltz), takes a position as a
barber for the Army base. With his wife Ruby (Connor), sister-in-law Anna,...
Most people don.t know, or at least know very little, about the Pow camps that the United States
maintained during World War II. Numbering in the hundreds, in nearly every state of the Union, these
camps at their peak housed almost half a million German and Japanese prisoners. Films based on these
camps have been few (Summer Of My German Soldier, Farewell To Manzanar, Come See The
Paradise) and mostly grim reminders of a dark period in American history. Fort McCoy, a new movie
co-directed by Michael Worth and writer/star Kate Connor, tells a fact-based story set against the
backdrop of the Army base of the title, of one summer in the life of an American family, circa 1944.
The Stirns move to Fort McCoy, Wisconsin when the father, Frank (Eric Stoltz), takes a position as a
barber for the Army base. With his wife Ruby (Connor), sister-in-law Anna,...
- 11/12/2011
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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