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

1 win & 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	...	Sgt. Tom Eckert
Alyssa Diaz	...	Julie
Julian Alcaraz	...	Greg
Will Yun Lee	...	Captain Cho
Jeffrey Dean Morgan	...	Sgt. Maj. Andrew 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 | teenager | courage | rescue | 

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Taglines:

Heroes Are Made In America

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Genres:

Action | Drama

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

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

Did You Know?

Trivia

In the same year, Josh Hutcherson appeared with Chris Hemsworth's brother Liam Hemsworth in The Hunger Games (2012).

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Goofs

The bus carrying hostages in Spokane is labeled Ballard School District. Ballard is a neighborhood of Seattle, 275 miles west of Spokane.

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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

Featured in WatchMojo: Top 10 Terrible Action Movie Remakes (2019)

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Soundtracks

Up Around The Bend
Written by John Fogerty
Performed by Creedence Clearwater Revival

User Reviews

Not Only Hard to Believe

I read a review where the story of the movie was said to be unlogical and hard to believe. Well it's also hard to believe that a man shoots webs from his arms and that an alien lands on earth and can fly and shoot lasers from his eyes.

But it's not about a band of young men and women fighting against an army that's making this movie bad. It is that it is just so trivial. There is no feeling for the characters involved because they're just the 500th football playing college kids you will see in a movie. There is no heart and there is not one good actor in it.

Not worth watching at all ...

Details

Official Sites:

Official site Official Twitter

Country:

USA

Language:

English Korean

Release Date:

21 November 2012 (USA)

Also Known As:

Red Dawn

Filming Locations:

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

Box Office

Budget:

$65,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$14,276,668, 25 November 2012

Gross USA:

$44,806,783

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$50,950,296

Company Credits

Production Co:

FilmDistrict, Contrafilm, FilmNation Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

93 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital Datasat SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1