Hacksaw Ridge
A movie that reaches out toward the idea of goodness in the world.
Hacksaw Ridge
HACKSAW RIDGE is the extraordinary true story of Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield). In Okinawa during the bloodiest battle of WWII, Doss saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun. He was the only American soldier in WWII to fight on the front lines without a weapon, as he believed that while the war was justified, killing was nevertheless wrong. As an army medic, he single-handedly evacuated the wounded from behind enemy lines, braved fire while tending to soldiers and was wounded by a grenade and hit by snipers. Doss was the first conscientious objector awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Genre
Bio-pic,
Drama,
Romance,
War
Runtime
138
Language
English
Director
Mel Gibson
Cast
Teresa Palmer,
Sam Worthington,
Rachel Griffiths,
Hugo Weaving,
Vince Vaughn
FEATURED REVIEW
Owen Gleiberman, Variety
Mel Gibson’s “Hacksaw Ridge” is a brutally effective, bristlingly idiosyncratic combat saga — the true story of a man of peace caught up in the inferno of World War II. It’s the first movie Gibson has directed since “Apocalypto,” 10 years ago (a film he’d already shot before the scandals that ...
Played at
Claremont 5 11.03.16 - 11.17.16
NoHo 7 11.03.16 - 11.22.16
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