Storyline
A US Army officer had made a "friendly fire" mistake that was covered up and he was reassigned to a desk job. Later he was tasked to investigate a female chopper commander's worthiness to be awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously. At first all seemed in order then he begins to notice inconsistencies between the testimonies of the witnesses....
Directors
Cast
Zeljko Ivanek, Matt Damon, Denzel Washington, Scott Glenn, Tim Guinee, Korey Coleman, Mark Adair-Rios, Ken Jenkins, Sean Astin, Sean Patrick Thomas, Michole Briana White, Michael Moriarty, Tim Ransom, Meg Ryan, Diane Baker, Seth Gilliam, Bronson Pinchot, Lou Diamond Phillips, Regina Taylor, Ned Vaughn, Manny Pérez, Amy Hathaway, David McSwain, Armand Darrius, Kathleen Widdoes
Trailer
Reviews
100
ReelViews
As profound and intelligent as it is moving, and that makes this memorable motion picture one of 1996's best.
90
Intelligent, involving and serious, it is as honestly emotional as Hollywood allows itself to get, a story of the search for wartime truth whose own concern for the genuine makes all the difference.
88
The end of the film understandably lays on the emotion a little heavily, but until then Courage Under Fire has been a fascinating emotional and logistical puzzle--almost a courtroom movie, with the desert as the courtroom.
88
Rolling Stone
In Washington's haunted eyes, in the stunning cinematography of Roger Deakins (Fargo) that plunges into the mad flare of combat, in the plot that deftly turns a whodunit into a meditation on character and in Zwick's persistent questioning of authority, Courage Under Fire honors its subject and its audience.
88
Denzel Washington is riveting.
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