The most daring rescue mission of our time is a story that has never been told. Set in the Philippines in 1945, “The Great Raid” tells the true story of the 6th Ranger Battalion, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Mucci (Bratt) who undertake a daring rescue mission against all odds. Traveling thirty miles…
Category: Real Life Stories
The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)
An amateur player from a working class family, Francis Ouimet (Shia LaBeouf) shocked the golf world when at the 1913 U.S. Open, flanked by his 10-year-old caddie, he defeated his idol, the defending British champion Harry Vardon (Stephen Dillane). An unlikely match-up – the ingénue versus the seasoned champ – theirs was the greatest match…
Jarhead (2005)
Tagline: Welcome to the suck. “Like most good and great Marines, I hated the Corps. I hated being a Marine because more than all of the things in the world I wanted to be-smart, famous, sexy, oversexed, drunk, f***ed, high, alone, famous, smart, known, understood, loved, forgiven, oversexed, drunk, high, smart, sexy-more than all of…
The Libertine (2005)
Tagline: He didn’t resist temptation. He pursued it. ‘The Libertine’ follows the adventures of John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester, in London of the 17th century. He has a passionate romance with a young actress, Elizabeth Barry, and he writes a scurrilous play which lampoons the monarch who commissioned it, Charles II, leading to…
Lords of Dogtown (2005)
Tagline: They came from nothing to change everything. In Venice, California in the mid ’70’s, the sport of surfing brought together a group of teenagers from a rough neighborhood. Riding the waves at the Pacific Ocean Park pier, a graveyard of a former amusement park, the boys from “Dogtown” joined the Zephyr skate team (or…
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005)
Evelyn Ryan is a devoted housewife and mother of ten in the 1950s. Her husband can’t seem to make ends meet, but that doesn’t stop the car from breaking down, the mortgage coming due and the bills from piling up. It falls to Evelyn to defy the conventions of the day and find a way…