Monuments Men
Escapism junkies may feel betrayed. Clooney has crafted a movie about about aspiration, about culture at risk, about things worth fighting for.
The Monuments Men
Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action-thriller focusing on an unlikely World War II platoon, tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. It would be an impossible mission: with the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could these guys – seven museum directors, curators, and art historians, all more familiar with Michelangelo than the M-1 – possibly hope to succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time to avoid the destruction of 1000 years of culture, they would risk their lives to protect and defend mankind’s greatest achievements.
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Runtime
118
Language
English
Director
George Clooney
Cast
Matt Damon,
Bill Murray,
Jean Dujardin,
Hugh Bonneville,
Bob Balaban
FEATURED REVIEW
Todd Gilchrist, GeekNation
Movies about World War II like The Monuments Men fell out of fashion a long time ago, thanks in no small part to efforts like Saving Private Ryan that chronicle battle’s true horrors, if not also a considerable amount of Greatest Generation posturing. But even with Spielberg’s masterpiece in his ...
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NoHo 7 2.06.14 - 3.06.14
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