Miracle at St Anna [Blu-ray] Feature
- From Touchstone Pictures and A Spike Lee Joint comes the powerful and uplifting World War II epic MIRACLE AT ST. ANNA, directed by acclaimed filmmaker Spike Lee (THE INSIDE MAN). Stationed in Tuscany, Italy, four members of the U.S. Army's all-black 92nd Infantry Division, the Buffalo Soldiers, are trapped behind enemy lines after one of them risks his life to save a traumatized Italian boy. Separ
Miracle at St Anna [Blu-ray] Overview
From award-winning filmmaker Spike Lee comes
Miracle At St. Anna, the story of four black American soldiers who are members of the US Army as part of the all-black 92nd Buffalo Soldier division stationed in Tuscany, Italy during WWII. They experience the tragedy and triumph of war as they find themselves trapped behind enemy lines and separated from their unit after one of them risks his life to save an Italian boy. Praised as The best war movie since Saving Private Ryan (Pat Collins, WWOR TV) and One of the year s best (Ben Lyons, E!), and filled with epic battle sequences and action, the film explore deeply inspiring, powerful story drawn from true history, that transcends national boundaries, race and class to touch the goodness within us all. Now even more revealing with exclusive Blu-ray bonus features that bring you even deeper into the world of these unsung heroes.
Miracle at St Anna [Blu-ray] Specifications
Every major American filmmaker has a war movie inside them. After the twin triumphs of
When the Levees Broke and
Inside Man, his biggest box office hit, Spike Lee puts his distinctive stamp on World War II. Though
Miracle at St. Anna begins and ends in 1983, most of the action takes place in 1944. The segregation of the time leads to the Army's African-American 92nd Infantry Division. In Italy, four of these Buffalo Soldiers, Sergeants Stamps (
Antwone Fisher's Derek Luke) and Bishop (
Barbershop's Michael Ealy), Corporal Hector (
Jarhead's Laz Alonso), and sweet, superstitious Private Train (
The Express's Omar Benson Miller), get separated from their unit while fighting the Germans. On the way to higher ground, Train rescues a boy from the rubble. With nine-year-old Angelo (newcomer Matteo Sciabordi) in tow, the soldiers secure shelter in a Tuscan town, where they band together with the villagers, including lovely English speaker Renata (
Artemisia's Valentina Cervi), nurse the delusional boy back to health (he has an imaginary playmate named Arturo), and prepare for the next attack. Like
Inside Man,
Miracle marks one of the few times Lee has drafted an outsider to write the script, in this case bestselling author James McBride, who adapts from his novel. The combination of sensibilities results in a film that alternates, sometimes awkwardly, between cynicism and sentimentality. Tonal irregularities aside,
Miracle at St. Anna pays overdue tribute to the 15,000 men who fought for freedom in a country that showed them greater respect than their nation of origin.
--Kathleen C. Fennessy
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