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Content Advisory: Graphic Violence, Adult Language Movie Release: 1985 DVD Release: 05/14/2002 Format: DVD - Letterbox for TV Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Studio: C Logic Members Wishing: 5 Genres: Historical Film, Historical Epic See Also: Revolution [Revisited]

This period drama about the American Revolution has an overlay of rhetoric that thwarts the action, flattening out the story about a man and his loved ones caught up in the events of the time. Tom Dobb (Al Pacino) falls in love with Daisy McConnahay (Nastassja Kinski), an aristocrat who deserts her class to fight alongside the rebels. Tom teaches his son Ned (Dexter Fletcher) everything he needs to learn, though the growing rebellion consumes most of his attention. Eventually, the Redcoats are mowed down in large battle scenes, as the ragtag Colonialists go to war. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

Al Pacino - Tom Dobb
Donald Sutherland - Sgt. Maj. Peasy
Nastassja Kinski - Daisy McConnahay
Joan Plowright - Mrs. McConnahay
Steven Berkoff - Sgt. Jones

This routine period drama about the American Revolution has an overlay of rhetoric that thwarts the action, flattening out the story about a man and his loved ones caught up in the events of the time. Tom Dobb (Al Pacino) falls in love with Daisy McConnahay (Nastassja Kinski), an aristocrat who deserts her class to fight alongside the rebels. Tom teaches his son Ned (Dexter Fletcher) everything he needs to learn, though the growing rebellion consumes most of his attention. Eventually, the Redcoats are mowed down in large battle scenes, as the ragtag Colonialists go to war. A moving song about the Revolution at the end sums up what the drama was trying to say all along. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide