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English. 21 and a Wake-Up is a 2009 American war film directed and written by producer, director, and writer Chris McIntyre and starring Amy Acker, Danica McKellar, and Faye Dunaway . The first American film about the Vietnam War allowed to shoot on location in Vietnam after the Vietnam War, it is based on a dozen true stories, most surrounding ...
- Chris McIntyre
- Chris McIntyre
- Nguyen Quy Phuong
- Brooke Wentz
Oct 30, 2009 · 21 and a Wake-Up: Directed by Chris McIntyre. With Amy Acker, Danica McKellar, Faye Dunaway, Todd Cahoon. The film is based on real events, focusing on the lives of three young nurses, one of whom undertakes a treacherous journey up the Mekong River to Cambodia to save a very young Vietnamese-American girl before her life is destroyed during the American bombing of Cambodia.
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- Drama, War
- Chris McIntyre
- 2009-10-30
Critic Reviews for 21 and a Wakeup. McIntyre's heart and soul are all over the film, but he's just beginning to learn the rudiments of filmmaking, and sad to say, the location work doesn't pay off ...
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- Chris Mcintyre
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- Amy Acker
Oct 27, 2009 · The film lacks a sense of time and place. I discover on IMDb that "21 and a Wakeup" was actually filmed on location in Vietnam, but its Southeast Asia looks nowhere near as convincing as the locations of Coppola's "Apocalypse Now" and Stone's "Platoon" (shot in the Philippines) or Herzog's "Rescue Dawn" (Thailand). Maybe I'm being too cynical.
Oct 29, 2009 · Unlike most war movies showing the devastation of war from a foot soldiers grunt's-eye view, 21 and a Wake Up dramatizes the real life story of three young nurses' just days from returning home at ...
The story of twelve nurses, doctors, soldiers and newsmen during the Nixon years as the war winds down and America starts to bring its warriors home.
