The Big Red One
Only chance could have thrown them together. Now, nothing can pull them apart.
Only chance could have thrown them together. Now, nothing can pull th...
Drama, War
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1980
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A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson, in Vichy French Africa, Sicily, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Belgium and France, and ending in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia where they face the true horror of war.
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Runtime:
113 min
Release date:
28 May 1980
Country:
US
Languages:
English, Italian, German, French
Budget:
$4,500,000
Revenue:
$7,206,220
Awards:
2 wins & 2 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
A big, impressive slab of drama -- maybe not a masterpiece or an epic, but a colorful story that sweeps you up and covers a lot of ground at a fast clip.
– Colin Covert,
Minneapolis Star Tribune,
20 Jan 2005
fresh:
'The Reconstruction,' which clocks in at 2 hours, 43 minutes, with not a single extraneous frame, elevates the work from a robust genre film to a full-blown epic.
– Kevin Crust,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Jan 2005
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To see this seamless 'reconstruction' -- consisting of some 15 entirely new sequences as well as augmentations to 23 others -- is to behold a masterpiece revealed.
– Scott Foundas,
L.A. Weekly,
20 Jan 2005
fresh:
Even though it has gained more than 45 minutes, it doesn't feel longer. Scenes that were choppy or half-baked are now allowed to play out as Fuller intended.
– John Hartl,
Seattle Times,
10 Dec 2004
fresh:
The director's gift for bare-knuckles lyricism rescues scene after scene.
– Ty Burr,
Boston Globe,
3 Dec 2004