Plot
A soldier assigned to Guantanamo Bay befriends a man who has been imprisoned there for eight years.
Release Year: 2014
Rating: 7.5/10 (1,532 voted)
Critic's Score: 55/100
Director: Peter Sattler
Stars: Kristen Stewart, Peyman Moaadi, Lane Garrison
Storyline
A young soldier escapes her suffocating small town by joining the military, only to find that she isn't going for a tour of duty in Iraq as she hoped. Instead, she's sent to Guantanamo. Met with hatred and abuse from the Muslim men in her charge, she forges an odd friendship with a young man who has been imprisoned at Gitmo for eight years.
Cast: Nawal Bengholam -
Newscaster
Peyman Moaadi -
Ali
(as Payman Maadi)
Lane Garrison -
Ransdell
Joseph Julian Soria -
Rico
Mark Naji -
Detainee #1
Anoop Simon -
Detainee #2
Kristen Stewart -
Cole
Cory Michael Smith -
Bergen
Ser'Darius Blain -
Jackson
Tara Holt -
Mary
LaDell Preston -
IRF #1
Daniel Leavitt -
IRF #2
Marco Khan -
Mahmoud
Julia Duffy -
Cole's Mother
Robert Tarpinian -
Detainee #3
Taglines:
Connection takes courage.
Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: 17 October 2014
Filming Locations: Los Angeles, California, USA
Technical Specs
Runtime:
Did You Know?
Trivia: Peyman Moaadi and Kristen Stewart rehearsed for ten days before filming began. See more »
User Review
Author:
Rating: 10/10
Moving and emotionally charged performances by both Stewart and Moaadi
from beginning to end. I was completely surprised by the subject matter
of Gitmo, expecting a political message as the underlying theme, but it
turned out to be a study of humanity and relationships within extreme
circumstances. Impressive directorial debut of Sattler.
Stewart plays guard Amy Cole, a young marine from a small town who
joined the military to escape her life. The movie centers around the
conflict of her growing relationship with a prisoner, Moaadi, who has
been in Gitmo for eight years. Both actors do justice to the storyline
and these complex characters without building caricatures of military
and extremist personalities. I'm not one for heavy military story
lines, but I was pleasantly surprised by this film's twist to the Gitmo
plot with a narrow lens on the people, not the politics. It's not all
heavy subject matter....Moaadi adds some appreciated humor. Bottom
line: worth my time.
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