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Name: Courage Under Fire
Released: 1996-7-12
Cast: Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Lou Diamond Phillips, Michael Moriarty, Matt Damon

Courage Under Fire

R
1h 56m
1996

86%

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While his own record is under investigation, a Persian Gulf tank commander reviews another officer's candidacy for a posthumous medal and becomes drawn into her story.

Director:

Edward Zwick

Producer:

John Davis, Joseph M. Singer, David T. Friendly

Writer:

Patrick Sheane Duncan

Cast:

Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Lou Diamond Phillips, Michael Moriarty, Matt Damon, Seth Gilliam, Bronson Pinchot, Scott Glenn

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

86%

Critics Consensus: An emotional and intriguing tale of a military officer who must review the merits of a fallen officer while confronting his own war demons. Effectively depicts the terrors of war as well as its heartbreaking aftermath.

Reviews

Keith & the Movies

Keith Garlington

Its central mystery is compelling even though it takes some time before we finally get to the truth. And even though the emotion is pretty thick in the final 15 minutes it still feels earned.

What emerges may not be quite as cut-and-dried as the movie’s structure sometimes implies.

If a woman in command has wounded soldiers that need protecting from enemy forces, and her maternal instinct kicks in-look out.

Washington, subtle, moving and charismatic, anchors the movie...Zwick's movie is solid, honorable and well crafted, but when all the veils have dropped and the mysteries solved, it feels tidier and more melodramatic than it promised.