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Genres:
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Action /
Crime /
Drama /
Thriller /
War
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Director:
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Spike Lee
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt,
Michael Ealy,
Omari Hardwick,
Omero Antonutti,
Valentina Cervi,
Matteo Sciabordi,
Derek Luke,
Laz Alonso,
Omar Benson Miller,
Pierfrancesco Favino,
John Turturro,
John Leguizamo,
Kerry Washington,
D.B. Sweeney,
Robert John Burke
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Duration:
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160 min.
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Rating:
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(5.8/10)162
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Plot Summary:
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In the fall of 1944, four African-American soldiers come across themselves caught behind contestant lines and surrounded through German soldiers. They take refuge in a small Italian village that has been the meanwhile vacated beside the Germans. In their company in a small boy, obviously fire on-shocked and feverish, who seems only to speak to his invisible friend Arturo. Tensions rise in the midst the four men not only because of their life-threatening kettle of fish but also because two of them behove rivals in the direction of the notoriety of an pretty junior woman. When they carry out to... flourish phone with their part, they are told to lay a German soldier for questioning and with the abet of the Italian partisans, secure a possibility. What they don't realize is that there is a traitor in the fanatic group, one that will prepare prime repercussion on a certain of the men 40 years later.
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Miracle at St. Anna
Kenneth TuranAn important story indifferently told, Spike Lee's Miracle at St. Anna shows what happens when a film's execution does not measure up to its ideas.
The notion behind St. Anna is to create an epic World War II drama celebrating the largely forgotten exploits of African American infantrymen known as Buffalo Soldiers and to explore the complex dynamics of fighting for freedom in what was essentially a segregated Army.
To tell that larger story, however, another more plot-driven tale had to be found, and, as scripted by James McBride from his novel, the result comes up short. Pedestrian and awkward, this film is a disappointment not only in comparison with Lee's earlier epic, the underrated Malcolm X, but also in comparison with anot...
Miracle at St. Anna
Todd McCarthySpike Lee loses the battles and the war in Miracle at St. Anna, a clunky, poorly constructed drama designed to spotlight the little-remarked role of black American soldiers in World War II. Clocking in at 160 minutes, this is a sloppy stew in which the ingredients of battle action, murder mystery, little-kid sentiment and history lesson don???t mix well. Nor is it remotely clear who the audience is meant to be; the R rating pretty much rules out younger students, and extensive subtitles will deter action fans, who would be bored anyway. Best B.O. will likely be in Italy, where most of the melodrama takes place. Pic is a particular disappointment after Lee???s reputation-restoring previous feature, Inside Man, which saw the director working imaginativel...
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