Top cast:Roddy Piper,Keith David,Meg Foster
Director:Frederick A. Thomson
Genre:Romance
Region:Syria
Year:2002
Storyline:]Now, a bloodied and shocked Laurie Strode (carrying the gun in her hand) stumbled down a deserted, rain-slick road in Haddonfield, Illinois where she was picked up by Sheriff Brackett (Brad Dourif)...After the group of men at the table mocks her and drowns her out with a crass version of the songSend Word to Mother("Let""s break the news to Mother, and tell her there""s no other.He removed the plane""s door, and asked the shaken passengers: "Is everyone all right?" "I hope this experience hasn""t put any of you off flying.The film""s main characters all had symbolic names, a Freudian triptych of individuals who all reacted to the horrors of war in different ways:Captain Willard (ego) -- dutifully ""willed"" to carry out his assassination mission "with extreme prejudice"Colonel Kurtz (superego) -- godlike cult-leader, a perfect soldier but ""cursed"" by his dark actionsLieutenant Colonel Kilgore (id) -- a hawkish, flamboyant commander who relished the ""gory"" smell of napalm in the morningThe film was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Robert Duvall), Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Art Direction/Set Decoration, and Best Film Editing, but the film won only two well-deserved awards: Best Cinematography (Vittorio Storaro) and Best Sound.With the mysterious monolith in the foreground, the glowing Sun rises over the black slab, directly beneath the crescent of the Moon.