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War Eagle, Arkansas

2007 · 93 min

A quiet, heartfelt drama about small-town choices and loyalty, with a gentle pace and a bittersweet, hopeful tone.

Directed by
Roberto Milazzo
Genres
Drama
Overview
Based on a True Story War Eagle, Arkansas is a character-driven drama about a young man’s choice of whether to leave his family and friends for a career in baseball or stay and redeem his struggling community. The story takes place over a few pivotal weeks in the summer after Enoch Cass’s senior year, and is set against the backdrop of Arkansas’ beautiful Ozark Mountains. War Eagle, Arkansas poses important questions that face all young people in rural America. The answers we find could touch us all.

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Directed by
Roberto Milazzo
Genres
Drama
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • coming-of-age
  • friendship
  • family
  • identity
  • loyalty
Places
  • small town
  • countryside
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour3
Realism8
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight6

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Genres
drama
Directed by
Roberto Milazzo
Written by
Graham Gordy
Starring
Brian Dennehy, Mare Winningham, James McDaniel, Mary Kay Place, Luke Grimes, Dan McCabe, Misti Traya, Lynnsee Provence
Music
Will Churchill
Cinematography
Masanobu Takayanagi
Runtime
93 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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