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Unbroken

  • 20142014
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 2h 17m
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A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.
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After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-o... Read allAfter a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
IMDb RATING
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171K
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1,632
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    • Angelina Jolie
  • Writers
    • Joel Coen(screenplay)
    • Ethan Coen(screenplay)
    • Richard LaGravenese(screenplay)
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    • Jack O'Connell
    • Miyavi
    • Domhnall Gleeson
    • Angelina Jolie
  • Writers
    • Joel Coen(screenplay)
    • Ethan Coen(screenplay)
    • Richard LaGravenese(screenplay)
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    • Jack O'Connell
    • Miyavi
    • Domhnall Gleeson
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    • 496User reviews
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    • Nominated for 3 Oscars

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    Jack O'Connell
    Jack O'Connell
    • Louis Zamperini
    Miyavi
    Miyavi
    • Watanabe
    • (as Takamasa Ishihara)
    Domhnall Gleeson
    Domhnall Gleeson
    • Phil
    Garrett Hedlund
    Garrett Hedlund
    • Fitzgerald
    Finn Wittrock
    Finn Wittrock
    • Mac
    Jai Courtney
    Jai Courtney
    • Cup
    Maddalena Ischiale
    Maddalena Ischiale
    • Louise
    Vincenzo Amato
    Vincenzo Amato
    • Anthony
    John Magaro
    John Magaro
    • Tinker
    Luke Treadaway
    Luke Treadaway
    • Miller
    Louis McIntosh
    • Harris
    Ross Anderson
    Ross Anderson
    • Blackie
    C.J. Valleroy
    C.J. Valleroy
    • Young Louie
    John D'Leo
    John D'Leo
    • Young Pete
    Alex Russell
    Alex Russell
    • Older Pete
    Jordan Patrick Smith
    Jordan Patrick Smith
    • Clift
    Spencer Rocco Lofranco
    Spencer Rocco Lofranco
    • Harry Brooks
    • (as Spencer Lofranco)
    Stephen J. Douglas
    • Clarence Douglas
      • Angelina Jolie
    • Writers
      • Joel Coen(screenplay)
      • Ethan Coen(screenplay)
      • Richard LaGravenese(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      The real Louis Zamperini passed away on July 2, 2014. He was able to watch a rough cut of the film on director Angelina Jolie's laptop while in the hospital before he passed.
    • Goofs
      At the train station scene when Peter is seeing Louis off, a 50-star US flag is hanging from the depot building. The flag had only 48 stars from 1912 until 1959.
    • Quotes

      Older Pete: If you can take it, you can make it.

    • Connections
      Edited into Unbroken: Path to Redemption (2018)
    • Soundtracks
      Miracles
      Written by Guy Berryman, Jon Buckland, Will Champion and Chris Martin

      Performed by Coldplay

      Coldplay appears courtesy of Parlophone Records

    User reviews496

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    Maybe his life is just not suspenseful. Not!
    Director Angelina Jolie has adapted Laura Hillenbrand's great biography, Unbroken, and made a conventional story about one of America's true heroes, Louis Zamperini. I'll continue to think about how Jolie could have made this more suspenseful, considering Louis was an Olympic runner, stayed in a life boat for the world record 47 days, and survived torture in two Japanese POW camps.

    Although the film shows Louis to survive unbroken, despite the-Passion-of-The-Christ-like torture overdose, and follows his life story accurately, there's no soul, just dutiful recounting of the separate incidents. As a colleague commented, the real life footage of Louis returning as an old man to run the Olympic torch is more engaging and emotional than the whole film.

    The cinematography of the renowned Roger Deakins is splendid on land and sea while Alexandre Desplat's music swells with romance at the right times. Otherwise, it's business as usual—get the history right. For me, a filmmaker could play with the story to make it more meaningful and involve more emotion if she has to—and Jolie has to.

    The mediocre writing, that includes work of the Coens and the screenwriter of Gladiator, William Nicholson, repeats this trite line, "If you can take it, you can make it." Also this line, "One moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory," doesn't sound right, whereas in the book, it does: "A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain." Now that makes sense.

    The villain, called Bird, should be a ruthless torturer with emotional issues tied to his lack of promotion and homosexual longings. However Jolie has chosen an androgynous Japanese rock star, Takamasa Ishihara, who doesn't click as mean or psychotic, just barking torture orders to fill his time with an occasionally enigmatic sentence or two to entice us into thinking we havedepth. Like the film, Bird promises much but delivers too little.

    As opposed to the boring torture—how about more of his home life or his search for Bird after the war? I want Jolie to do well—she has an exemplary family and solid career as an actress—but, with the negligible first directing effort, In the Land of Blood and Honey, she has yet to achieve as a director.

    "I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage." Friedrich Nietzsche
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      • December 25, 2014 (United States)
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      • Blacktown International Sportspark, Blacktown, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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      • Legendary Entertainment
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    • 2 hours 17 minutes
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      • Dolby Surround 7.1

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