Camp X-Ray (2014)

A soldier assigned to Guantanamo Bay befriends a man who has been imprisoned there.

Director:

Peter Sattler

Writer:

Peter Sattler

Stars:

Kristen Stewart, Payman Maadi, Lane Garrison

6 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Nawal Bengholam	...	Newscaster
Payman Maadi	...	Ali
Lane Garrison	...	Ransdell
Joseph Julian Soria	...	Rico
Marwan Naji	...	Detainee #1 (as Mark Naji)
Anoop Simon	...	Detainee #2
Kristen Stewart	...	Cole
Cory Michael Smith	...	Bergen
Ser'Darius Blain	...	Jackson
Tara Holt	...	Mary
LaDell Preston	...	IRF #1
Daniel Leavitt	...	IRF #2
Marco Khan	...	Mahmoud
Julia Duffy	...	Cole's Mother
Robert Tarpinian	...	Detainee #3

Storyline

A young soldier escapes her suffocating small town by joining the military, only to find that she isn't going for a tour of duty in Iraq as she hoped. Instead, she's sent to Guantanamo. Met with hatred and abuse from the men in her charge, she forges an odd friendship with a young man who has been imprisoned at Gitmo for eight years.

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Plot Keywords:

guantanamo bay | female protagonist | unlikely friendship | covered in feces | reference to harry potter | 

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Taglines:

We are at war.

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Genres:

Drama | War

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for language and brief nude images

Details

Official Sites:

IFC Films [United States]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

17 October 2014 (USA)

Also Known As:

Marcados Pela Guerra

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$1,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$1,316, 17 October 2014, Limited Release

Gross USA:

$9,837, 7 November 2014

Company Credits

Production Co:

GNK Productions,Gotham Group,Rough House Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

117 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) in Los Angeles consulted on the film.

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Goofs

There is no Farsi (Persian) speaking detainee in Guantanamo bay detention camp. But, several times detainees talk Farsi.

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Quotes

Colonel Drummond: Nobody gives you a medal when you do it right, they just demote you when you do it wrong.

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Connections

References The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

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Soundtracks

Whoo Boy
written by Joshua Falcon and Nicolas Gruter
performed by Sons of Jezebel
courtesy of Defend Music, Inc.
by arrangement with Silver Side Productions

User Reviews

Surprising and very moving

This film affected me very deeply in a way I was not expecting.

Kristen Stewart and Peyman Moaadi deliver stunning performances which take your breathe away. You really feel for this guy and Stewart has never been more convincing. I thought it would be a stretch to imagine her as a tough soldier and it is kind of surreal yet she manages to create a credible person out of the role. Her emotional distress as the contradictions of her job as camp guard begin to overwhelm her, is very powerful and a pleasure to watch.

This film totally changed my mind about Gitmo. Just because it makes you realize the awful possibility that totally innocent people may be stuck there, and that unlike any other prison in the USA, there is no way for them to appeal or for anybody to appeal on their behalf.

There must be some way to allow mistakes to be corrected. It's not right.

It's amazing to me that I never saw it that way. I just assumed that they were all hard core bad guys. But what if they aren't.

That would be a terrible fate, and this film really punches home how terrible it would be.