Harts War

Starring: Bruce Willis, Colin Farrell, Terrence Dashon Howard Director: Gregory Hoblit Original UK Premiere: 2002 Dvd Release: 14th October, 2002 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding Subtitled In: Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish Dubbed In: Czech

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Harts War is a film about a World War II prisoner of war camp starring Bruce Willis & Colin Farrell. During World War II, First-Lieutenant Thomas Hart is captured by German forces during the Battle of the Bulge & is sent to a Prison camp, Lieutenant Hart encounters the social & physical struggles of POWs. When two African American pilots are brought to the camp, one is soon murdered & the other accused of killing a white sergeant. A law-student before the war, Hart is appointed by Army Col. William McNamara to defend the accused pilot at his court-martial. The trial is a sham, acting as a distraction to hide McNamara s plans of escape. Harts War was Jonathan Brandis s last major role before his suicide. Harts War   at the Internet Movie Database. Posters Of Harts War

DVD Extras: Hart's War comes to DVD with a Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack that's fine for a dialogue-driven film, while the anamorphically enhanced 2.35:1 transfer is virtually flawless. Ten deleted scenes are presented with the same excellent picture quality & optional commentary by director Gregory Hoblit. There is a four-part photo gallery, the deceptive theatrical trailer & two commentaries. Producer David Foster offers some interesting information, but also a lot of generalities & silence. Bruce Willis contributes virtually nothing, but Hoblit & writer Billy Ray engage in a frank discussion of many of the flaws in the film & the problems they never solved. The wartime history they recount & the cuts they made suggest that a better film was sacrificed to tell a commercial story in two hours.

Harts War is a serious, well-intentioned Second World War drama. Its finally unconvincing, but it will go down in the history books as marking future superstar Colin Farrells first leading role in a major studio picture. Its late 1944 & Lieutenant Hart ends up in a POW camp where the senior American officer, Colonel McNamara , takes an instant dislike to him. When a black American officer, Lt Scott , is accused of murder, the commandant allows McNamara to conduct a politically motivated trial. Hart is made the defence attorney, but may be no more than a pawn to further McNamaras own agenda.

In a film that chooses the ironic setting of a Nazi prison camp to examine racism in the American military, none of the characters are black or white, & in the tradition of The Shawshank Redemption there is more going on beneath the surface than meets the eye. Unfortunately, while Harts War is extremely well made, various small plot holes & contrivances mean that ultimately it fails to ring true, a problem exacerbated by an over-earnest tendency to preach in key scenes. Nevertheless, Willis gives one of his best, most understated performances & Farrell, who went straight from this to Minority Report, delivers a truly star-making turn.

Walter Bruce Willis is a German - American actor & musician. Born at a military base to an American father & a German Lutheran mother, he was raised in Penns Grove, New Jersey & moved to New York to become an actor. He first found fame with his starring role in the hit TV series Moonlighting before starring in the Die Hard films. // Willis was married to actress Demi Moore from November 21, 1987 to October 18, 2000. The couple gave no public reason for their breakup. Rumer Glenn Willis, Scout LaRue Willis & Tallulah Belle Willis. Since their breakup, rumors have persisted that the couple planned to re-marry, but Moore has since married Ashton Kutcher. They are still on friendly terms & continue to share a home & several businesses in Blaine County, Idaho. Currently, Willis is reportedly dating Days of Our Lives actress Nadia Bjorlin. In the late-1980s, Willis enjoyed moderate success as a recording artist, recording an album of blues entitled The Return of Bruno, which included the hit single Respect Yourself. Posters Of Bruce Willis

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Colin Farrell is an Irish actor. He was born Colin James Farrell in Castleknock, Dublin. Colin Farrell attend the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin however he dropped out & got the part of Danny Bryne on the Ballykissangel, a BBC television drama set in Ireland. It ran from 1996 till 2001 with Colins part running from 1998 to 1999 He then had a number of small roles in various TV shows & movies till he played the part of Private Roland Bozz in Tigerland in 2000. Since then he has been one of Ireland s rising stars in Hollywood, acting alongside some of Hollywood s finest including Bruce Willis in Harts War, Tom Cruise in Minority Report, Al Pacino in The Recruit & Samuel L Jackson in SWAT. Farrell was married to Amelia Warner from July to November 2001. He has a child, James - born September 12, 2003, with his now ex-girlfriend Kim Bordenave. Posters Of Colin Farrell

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