Sundance Film Festival 2011 : Hell and Back Again

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Hell and Back Again

Danfung Dennis 2010

Categories: World Cinema Documentary Competition

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Run time: 88 min. | U.S.A., United Kingdom | Language: English and Pashtu with English subtitles | color

In 2009, U.S. Marines launched a major helicopter assault on a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan. Immediately upon landing, the marines were surrounded by insurgents and attacked from all sides. Embedded in Echo Company, filmmaker Danfung Dennis captures the action with visceral immediacy. As he reveals the devastating impact a Taliban machine-gun bullet has on the life of 25-year-old Sergeant Nathan Harris, Dennis’s film evolves from being a war exposé to becoming a story of one man’s personal apocalypse. From the bloody battlefields of Afghanistan, to his home in North Carolina, Harris struggles to conquer the physical and mental fallout of war. A shell of the man he once was, will Harris ever return to the happy life he shared with his loving wife, Ashley?
Contrasting the horrors of the battlefield with the battle back home, Hell and Back Again is a transcendent film that comes full circle as it lays bare the true cost of war.

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Mike Lerner, Roast Beef Productions
Email: mike@roastbeeftv.com

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time	event code	city	venue	calendar
12:00 PM Sun, Jan 23	Wait List Only HELLA234D	Park City	Holiday Village Cinema IV	add to list
6:00 PM Tue, Jan 25	Wait List Only HELLA25TE	Park City	Temple Theatre	add to list
6:00 PM Wed, Jan 26	Wait List Only HELLA26BE	Salt Lake City	Broadway Centre Cinemas VI	add to list
11:30 PM Thu, Jan 27	Wait List Only HELLA27PL	Park City	Prospector Square Theatre	add to list
6:00 PM Fri, Jan 28	Wait List Only HELLA28RE	Park City	Redstone Cinemas 8	add to list

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Cast & Crew

director	Danfung Dennis

executive producer	Dan Cogan, Karol Martesko-Fenster, Gernot Schaffler, Thomas Brunner, Maxyne Franklin
producer	Mike Lerner, Martin Herring
editor	Fiona Otway
music/lyrics/sound design	J. Ralph
original song performed by	Willie Nelson

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Rated 3.0/5 Stars my rating click to rate 1 2 3 4 5 billingaddy 3:50 PM		This movie was harsh, to say the least, but really well done. I think it will be the last war movie I ever see; this is the perfect movie for someone completely ignorant of the cost of war, but if you already know, it's even more wrenching watching this guy's struggle. The film was beautiful and really well done.