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- In a way, yes. The film is the debut script from screenwriter Chris Roessner, who based it on his own experiences as a machine gunner for the army in Iraq's Sunni Triangle in 2003. The film tells the story of a group of American soldiers who find themselves in a dangerous situation trying to save the Iraqi village of Baqubah.
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Apr 20, 2017 · So knowing that, you may be wondering: is Sand Castle based on a true story? In a way, yes. The film is the debut script from screenwriter Chris Roessner, who based it on his own experiences as...
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Sand Castle is a 2017 American war drama film directed by Fernando Coimbra and written by Chris Roessner. The film stars Nicholas Hoult, Logan Marshall-Green, Henry Cavill, Glen Powell, Tommy Flanagan, Beau Knapp, and Neil Brown Jr. The film centers on Matt Ocre, a young soldier in the United States Army, who is tasked with restoring water to a ...
Sand Castle: Directed by Fernando Coimbra. With Glen Powell, Henry Cavill, Nicholas Hoult, Beau Knapp. The story follows a young soldier, and his introduction into the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Based on true events, it bears witness to the destruction and horrors of war.
- (28K)
- Action, Drama, War
- Fernando Coimbra
- 2017-04-21
Apr 18, 2017 · With “Sand Castle” due to premiere on April 21, we spoke to Roessner about his deployment to Iraq, why “Sand Castle” is different from other films about the war, and how heroizing service...
- Adam Linehan
Apr 21, 2017 · April 21, 2017. 3 min read. Fernando Coimbra ’s “Sand Castle” offers too little to the War is Hell genre to be noteworthy. It’s a true story, and so that has some inherent value, and the young cast is relatively strong, especially a few stand-outs, but we’ve seen too many similar stories in the decade-and-a-half since 9/11 for this ...
At the beginning of the 2003 Iraq War, Pvt. Matt Ocre (Nicholas Hoult), a young civil affairs soldier with the Army Reserves slams his hand in the door of a Humvee in an attempt to get sent home. Narration reveals that he enlisted in July 2001, in order to get money for college.
An inexperienced American private discovers the true cost of war when his unit is sent on a dangerous mission to repair a water pumping station in a rural Iraqi village. Netflix. Watch...
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- War, Drama
- TV-MA
