A law student becomes a lieutenant during World War II, is captured and asked to defend a black prisoner of war falsely accused of murder.
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Bruce Willis | ... | Col. William A. McNamara | |
| Colin Farrell | ... | Lt. Thomas W. Hart | |
| Terrence Howard | ... | Lt. Lincoln A. Scott | |
| Cole Hauser | ... | Staff Sgt. Vic W. Bedford | |
| Marcel Iures | ... | Col. Werner Visser | |
| Linus Roache | ... | Capt. Peter A. Ross | |
| Vicellous Shannon | ... | Lt. Lamar T. Archer | |
| Maury Sterling | ... | Pfc. Dennis A. Gerber | |
| Sam Jaeger | ... | Capt. R.G. Sisk | |
| Scott Michael Campbell | ... | Cpl. Joe S. Cromin | |
| Rory Cochrane | ... | Sgt. Carl S. Webb | |
| Sebastian Tillinger | ... | Pvt. Bert D. 'Moose' Codman | |
| Rick Ravanello | ... | Maj. Joe Clary | |
| Adrian Grenier | ... | Pvt. Daniel E. Abrams | |
| Michael Weston | ... | Pfc. W. Roy Potts | |
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Fourth-generation Army Col. William McNamara is imprisoned in a brutal German POW camp. Still, as the senior-ranking American officer, he commands his fellow inmates, keeping a sense of honor alive in a place where honor is easy to destroy, all under the dangerous eye of the Luftwaffe veteran Col. Wilhelm Visser. Never giving up the fight to win the war, McNamara is silently planning, waiting for his moment to strike back at the enemy. A murder in the camp gives him the chance to set a risky plan in motion. With a court martial to keep Visser and the Germans distracted, McNamara orchestrates a cunning scheme to escape and destroy a nearby munitions plant, enlisting the unwitting help of young Lt. Tommy Hart. Together with his men, McNamara uses a hero's resolve to carry out his mission, ultimately forced to weigh the value of his life against the good of his country. Written by Press kit
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Beyond Courage, Beyond Honor. See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated R for some strong war violence and language | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USARelease Date:
15 February 2002 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Box Office
Budget:
$70,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend USA:
$7,771,753, 17 February 2002Gross USA:
$19,077,641Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$32,287,044Company Credits
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Col. Werner Visser: I killed my share of French and English in the last war; All of *them* had fathers.
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Written by Sidney Bechet
Performed by Sidney Bechet and His Jazzmen
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One of the movie's credited writers, Billy Ray, reports that he never read the novel, "Hart's War," which is the basis for the movie. In The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriter Billy Ray (2007), he calls this revelation a "painful admission." But, he explains, by the time he came on the project, the screenplay had been through so many drafts that what was in the book itself did not matter much for his job of getting the screenplay to work. Ray says that one of the movie's producers, David Foster "constantly" sent him excerpts from the novel, advising him to include those particular things in the movie. But he implies that he felt no need to include something simply because it came from the novel. He then makes a point of saying he "admires" the novel's author, John Katzenbach and his father, Nicholas Katzenbach, whose time as a World War II prisoner of war was the basis of the novel. Ray explains further that he worked from the existing drafts and from the large amount of World War II research he did for the project, especially relying on the writing of Stephen Ambrose. See more »Goofs
Stalag IVa was a real prison camp, but in fact only held one American. The vast majority of the prisoners were Russians or Poles, with a few Frenchmen and Britons being interned there as well. See more »Quotes
[Lt. Hart offers condolences upon learning that Col. Visser's own son was killed in action on the Russian Front]Col. Werner Visser: I killed my share of French and English in the last war; All of *them* had fathers.
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If you're looking for action in your war film skip this one. But if you don't mind an interesting drama about prejudice among Americans in a German POW camp, which although slow at times, leads to an interesting pay-off with a twist that (kinda) makes the whole thing worth it, then check it out. I especially enjoyed the subdued though "grizzled" looking Bruce Willis as Colonel McNamara and Marcel Iures as the camps' German commander.