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(2018) (Samuel Hunt, Merrit Patterson) (PG-13)

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- QUICK TAKE:
- Drama: Following his release from a WWII Japanese POW camp, an American GI must contend with his PTSD related to his former captor and subsequent alcoholism, all of which puts a strain on his marriage.
- PLOT:
- While former Olympic runner Louis Zamperini (SAMUEL HUNT) is happy to return to the States and his family -- including older brother Pete (BOBBY CAMPO) --after being freed from a Japanese POW camp at the end of WWII, he discovers that the war won't leave him alone. He has repeated flashbacks and hallucinations featuring his former brutal captor, Mutsuhiro "The Bird" Watanabe (DAVID SAKURAI), and thus takes to the bottle to try to deal with those.
On a happier side, he's met and then married Cynthia Applewhite (MERRIT PATTERSON) and they have a daughter, but as the troubling memories and images still haunt him and as he can't find work, his drinking increases, thus putting an ever-increasing strain on his marriage and family life. All to the point that Cynthia threatens to leave him if he doesn't do something -- even if it's just to attend a revival put on by Billy Graham (WILL GRAHAM) -- but Louis wants no part of him due to believing that God has abandoned him. From that point on, it might just take divine intervention to save him and his marriage.
- WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT?
- Unless they're interested in the real-life story behind the film or are drawn in by the religion angle, it doesn't seem too likely.
- WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: PG-13
- For thematic content and related disturbing images.
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