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Release Date
• USA: Jul 12, 1996
DVD Release Date
• R1: Sep 13, 2004
• R2: 7 Jun 2004
Budget $46,000,000
MPAA Rating
Rated R for war violence and language.
Running Time
1 hour, 57 minutes
Country USA
Studio 20th Century Fox, Davis Entertainment, Fox 2000 Pictures, Joseph M. Singer Production
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Other Titles
• Courage Under Fire
• Mut zur Wahrheit (1997)
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Genre: Action, Mystery, War, Drama, Military, Deception, Melodrama, Political, Detectives, Drugs, Tragedy, Murder, Spy, Suspense, Investigation
Tagline: A medal for honor. A search for justice. A battle for truth.
Plot: 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
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 | Meg Ryan
Top Gun, When Harry Met Sally..., You've Got Mail |
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 | Matt Damon
Saving Private Ryan, Good Will Hunting, Ocean's Eleven |
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 | Scott Glenn
The Silence of the Lambs, Apocalypse Now, The Hunt for Red October |
 | Tim Guinee
Blade, Ladder 49, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America |
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