Courage Under Fire Details

Courage Under Fire

Following the 1991 Gulf War, Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Serling (Denzel Washington) is assigned to review the background of the late Captain Karen Walden (Meg Ryan), who has been posthumously nominated for a medal of honor. While investigating Walden's candidacy, Serling is forced to face his own disillusionment and guilt surrounding the war. As he begins the interviewing process, he uncovers several inconsistencies in the stories told by the late pilot's crew. The three officers, who may or may not have been saved by the captain's actions, all give drastically different accounts of the events leading up to Walden's death. Ilario (Matt Damon) paints Walden as an unselfish, courageous hero, while the surly Monfriez (Lou Diamond Phillips) describes her as a crybaby and a coward. The third soldier, Altameyer (Seth Gilliam), lies dying in an army hospital, mumbling guilty confessions in a medicated haze. Similar to the storytelling technique used in Akira Kurosawa's RASHOMON, director Edward Zwick's COURAGE UNDER FIRE features each officer's account of the fateful incident reenacted onscreen, offering wildly diverse portrayals of Walden. Meg Ryan shines in a role that demands she play one character a multitude of ways. As Serling pieces together the radically different tales of combat, he uncovers the painful truth and simultaneously faces his own pent-up guilt regarding the war.

Starring	Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Lou Diamond Phillips, Michael Moriarty, Seth Gilliam
Director	Edward Zwick
Studio	20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 52 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 52 mins
Certificate
Collections	100 Feisty Females
Genres	Drama
Language	English
Hearing-impaired	English
Subtitles	Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish
Released	DVD: 13 May 2004 Blu-ray: 09 Apr 2007 Production year: 1996
Format	DVD