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Release Date
• USA: Mar 31, 2000
• UK: 11 Aug 2000
DVD Release Date
• R1: Oct 10, 2000
• R2: 5 Mar 2001
Budget $60,000,000
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MPAA Rating
Rated R for scenes of war violence, and for language.
Running Time
2 hours, 8 minutes
Country USA, Canada, UK, Germany
Production Companies
Dune Films, MFP Munich Film Partners GmbH & Company I. Produktions KG, Paramount Pictures, Roe Productions KG, Seven Arts Productions
Studio Scott Rudin, Seven Arts
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Other Titles
• Rules of Engagement (2000)
• Les Règles d'engagement
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Genre: Thriller, War, Drama, Political, Military, Courtroom, Law, Suspense, Spy
Tagline: A hero should never have to stand alone.
Plot: When the U.S. Embassy in Yemen is surrounded by a large crowd of demonstrators, Col. Terry Childers, USMC, is ordered to lead a squadron of Marines to bolster security at the embassy. He has orders to evacuate the ambassador and his family if the situation turns violent. A few short hours after Childers launches his mission, the ambassador's safety is secured, but three of Childers' men are dead, along with more than the 80 Yemeni men, women and children killed by Marine gunfire.Childers now faces a court-martial for violating the rules of engagement by killing unarmed civilians. He denies the charge, contending the protesters were armed and had opened fire on the Embassy. But it appears that the government has made the colonel the fall guy for an ugly diplomatic crisis: the men who could have testified on his behalf have been killed in action, one of the witnesses seems to be lying, and the President's National Security Adviser destroys evidence that might help Childers' case. Childers refuses to go down quietly and turns to his longtime friend, Hays Hodges, to defend him.
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 | Samuel L. Jackson
Pulp Fiction, Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, Kill Bill: Vol. 2 |
 | Guy Pearce
Memento, L.A. Confidential, The Count of Monte Cristo |
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 | Anne Archer
Clear and Present Danger, Patriot Games, Fatal Attraction |
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