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We Were Soldiers
2002
· Movie
· 138 min
B
MEANRANK
71/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2202
- IMDb #1693
- Google retired #1121
- Rotten Tomatoes #2141
- Metacritic #1977
- Letterboxd #2370
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3163
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1213
- Metacritic Critics #1925
- Metacritic Audience #2149
- Criticker #2076
- Douban #969
- Kinopoisk #1342
- AlloCiné #3161
- Trakt #1054
Every rating
45–90
out of 100
The story follows a Lieutenant Colonel as he prepares and leads the first battalion of the US Army's newly formed air cavalry unit into its first major battle in the Vietnam War. The film depicts the brutal and bloody conflict in the Ia Drang Valley from the perspective of the soldiers on the ground and the wives they left behind at home, waiting for news.
Details
- Director
- Randall Wallace
- Writer
- Randall Wallace
- Based on
- We Were Soldiers Once… And Young by Hal Moore
- Studio
- Wheelhouse Entertainment, Motion Picture Production GmbH & Co. Erste KG, Paramount Pictures, Icon Productions
- Released
- 1 March 2002
- Country
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom, France
- Language
- English, Vietnamese, French
- Runtime
- 138 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $75.0M
- Box office
- $114.7M
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Awards
3 wins & 5 nominations total
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