Top cast:Paul Giamatti,Thomas Haden Church,Virginia Madsen
Director:Jérémie Périn
Genre:Biography
Region:Greece
Year:2003
Storyline:The brown Cutlass Ciera drives along a two-lane highway, surrounded by a wide expanse of flat white fields.They wanted me to be just like them.Respectable, hardworking, a little house, a family.They drove me crazy with heir goddamn world, Grandma.You know Mom.I guess I""ve always been sheltered and special.I just wanna be anonymous like everybody else.Do my share for my country.Live up to what Grandpa did in he first war and Dad did in the second.Well, here I am, anonymous, all right, with guys nobody really cares about.They come from the end of the line, most of ""em.Small towns you never heard of: Pulaski, Tennessee.Brandon, Mississippi.Pork Bend, Utah.Wampum, Pennsylvania.Two years"" high school""s about it.Maybe if they""re lucky, a job waiting for ""em back in a factory.But most of ""em got nothin"".They""re poor.They""re the unwanted.Yet they""re fighting for our society and our freedom.It""s weird, isn""t it? At the bottom of the barrel, and they know it.Maybe that""s why they call themselves ""grunts"", ""cause a grunt can take it, can take anything.They""re the best I""ve ever seen, Grandma.The heart and soul..."Cheese-dick" newbie Chris"" turn came up, and he was instructed by Tex about how to work the claymore mines hat were set up with detonation cords: "Sure you know how to work the claymores, dude?.Wonderful - who obviously had better things to do." As he handed her a hairbrush, he stumbled over the bear-rug and his hand plunged into the flames of the fireplace.Director Joseph H.Lewis""s cult picture was taken from aSaturday Evening Poststory by novelist MacKinlay Kantor, and developed from a screenplay by Kantor and blacklisted Dalton Trumbo (credited as Millard Kaufman o hide the fact that he was one of the Hollywood Ten).[Note: Mirroring and double images are rampant in the film: Danny/Tony, the sane vs.insane Jack, Jack/Grady, the two girls in the corridor, the woman/hag in Room 237, etc.] After flying by a small sliver of an island (with a few trees) in the lake""s center, the shot dissolves from the lake o a God""s-eye, aerial view of a two-lane mountainous road far below, winding through sun-drenched tall pines in the early morning.