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Our crowd included a lot of older people, and some older men with Pilipino wives. There was one scene in particular that had many people in tears, and after the moving hardly anyone left the theater while they showed the old footage with the actual troops from the raid. It's been a while since I've seen a movie affect a crowd like that (SPR certainly was one).

Also, based on the PBS documentary, they didn't seem to go overboard in the dramatization. When I saw "inspired by actual events" I assumed it would be as historically accurate as U-571. While I'm sure there's license taken (especially with the romantic back-story), they seem to have gotten the broad points spot on.

My favorite of the Sundance shorts series. The music from Shawshank adds a lot and is surprising - most shorts don't pay up to get access to good music. Freeman, of course, is Morgan Freeman's son, and he does a great imitation of his famous father's voice and cadence.

This was a lazy movie and overly-long for the sake of keeping Hanks' Oscar streak alive (which thankfully did not happen it). To submit it in time they skipped editing, and it shows. It is really sad when movies portray the simple act of not being a bigot as heroic. I guess for the period perhaps that was true, but it just adds to the lazy stereotypes in the movie. Percy is particularly laughable, over-reaching to be the arch-villain of the movie. Sad filmmaking lauded due to the cash, director, and its ambitions, but it is undeserving.