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One Man's Hero is a 1999 historical war drama film directed by Lance Hool and starring Tom Berenger, Joaquim de Almeida and Daniela Romo.The film has the distinction of being the last film released by Orion Pictures' arthouse division Orion Classics, as well as being the last Orion Pictures film, until 2013's Grace Unplugged, when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer revived the Orion Pictures brand.
Oct 8, 1999 · One Man's Hero: Directed by Lance Hool. With Tom Berenger, Joaquim de Almeida, Daniela Romo, Mark Moses. John Riley, an Irish immigrant soldier recruited in the American army during the Mexican-American War faces anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic bigotry from his fellow servicemen and defects to the Mexican army.
Sep 24, 1999 · Sept. 24, 1999 12 AM PT. TIMES STAFF WRITER. “One Man’s Hero” is a deeply felt and engrossing period epic that not only presents the Mexican War of 1846-1848, in which Mexico lost more than ...
Rent One Man's Hero on Prime Video, or buy it on Prime Video. In 1848, Jon Riley (Tom Berenger) heads a group of Irish-born Roman Catholic soldiers in the U.S. Army. The group faces religious ...
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One Man's Hero. 1999 · 2 hr 3 min. R. Drama · Action. Set during the Mexican-American War, this is the story of Irish soldiers who are chastised by Protestant peers, and defect to the Mexican Army. Subtitles: English, English, English. Starring: Tom Berenger Stephen Tobolowsky Joaquim de Almeida Daniela Romo. Directed by: Lance Hool.
"One Man's Hero" tells the little-known story of the "St. Patrick's Battalion" or "San Patricios," a group of mostly Irish, and other immigrants of the Catholic religion, who deserted to Mexico after encountering religious and ethnic prejudice in the U.S. Army during the Mexican-American War.
One Man's Hero details a little known chapter of the very unpopular Mexican American War. The acting is superb, Tom Berenger aches with conflicted loyalty to his church, to his "boys" and to his adopted country. In many ways this is a diffucult film to view. Often, Americans feel my country right or wrong.
