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Miracle at St. Anna (2008) -- This is the first theatrical trailer for Spike Lee's Miracle at St. Anna.
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Miracle at St. Anna (2008) -- A war veteran's past is investigated after he kills a man in this Spike Lee film

Overview

User Rating:
5.9/10   7,185 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
James McBride (screenplay)
James McBride (novel)
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Release Date:
26 September 2008 (USA) more
Genre:
Tagline:
World War II has its heroes and its miracles.
Plot:
Set in 1944 Italy, the story of four black American soldiers who get trapped in a Tuscan village during WWII. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
9 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(51 articles)
Antoine Fuqua, Spike Lee Together on 'Miss'
 (From CinemaSpy. 18 November 2009, 11:10 PM, PST)

Celebrate Veteran’s Day with a War Movie Overload
 (From FilmSchoolRejects. 11 November 2009, 2:33 PM, PST)

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Two Hours And Forty Minutes more (147 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Derek Luke ... 2nd Staff Sergeant Aubrey Stamps

Michael Ealy ... Sergeant Bishop Cummings

Laz Alonso ... Corporal Hector Negron (Young / Old)

Omar Benson Miller ... Private First Class Sam Train
Pierfrancesco Favino ... Peppi 'The Great Butterfly' Grotta

Valentina Cervi ... Renata
Matteo Sciabordi ... Angelo Torancelli (The Boy)

John Turturro ... Detective Antonio 'Tony' Ricci

Joseph Gordon-Levitt ... Tim Boyle

John Leguizamo ... Enrico

Kerry Washington ... Zana Wilder

D.B. Sweeney ... Colonel Driscoll
Robert John Burke ... General Ned Almond

Omari Hardwick ... Platoon Commander Huggs
Omero Antonutti ... Ludovico
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Miracolo a Sant'Anna (Italy)
Untitled Spike Lee WWII Project (USA) (working title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for strong war violence, language and some sexual content/nudity.
Runtime:
160 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Trivia:
Naomi Campbell was originally cast in the film, but had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts. more
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Factual errors: When the story is told about the ice slops in Louisiana and the soldiers have live ammo with them, soldiers were never allowed to have live rounds off base, much less their weapons. more
Quotes:
Livingston: Safety is the greatest risk of all, because safety leaves no room for miracles and miracles are the only sure thing in life. more
Movie Connections:
Features The Longest Day (1962) more
Soundtrack:
Vandervoort In Ste-Mere-Eglise more

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135 out of 208 people found the following comment useful.
Two Hours And Forty Minutes, 27 September 2008
2/10
Author: casamartinez01 from Lima, Peru

Endless, unbearable. Italian actors overacting shamelessly and Spike Lee losing track of his own talents. The self indulgence mixed with the confusion made this "epic" one of the most difficult films to sit through in long, long time. During my visit to Los Angeles I was invited to a few screenings but this one was the one I longed for. Terrible let down. It's been a long time since "Do The Right Thing" and I have the feeling that it has to do with Spike Lee's vision of himself as a filmmaker. There is a lack of humility that blurs everything he does and "Miracle At St Anna" is a perfect example of that. In a way "The Inside Man", his genre commercial outing, was more honest and disciplined than anything his done of late. I can't imagine this film making any money so maybe Mr Lee will have the space to reflect. I certainly hope so because I'm sure he still has some aces up his sleeve.

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