Faith of My Fathers
by Peter Markle
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Actor: Chi Moui Lo, Gary Michael Smith, Korbi Dean, Scott Glenn, Thomas MadellDirector: Peter Markle
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-08-30
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Reviews of Faith of My Fathers
DVD Review: A Television Movie about the Horror of War!
Summary: 4 Stars
Based on the memoir of the same name, this story is the familiar one about United States Senator John McCain who survives a prison camp in Vietnam during his tour of duty.
The actors are somewhat unknown but familiar. The film was produced by Arts & Entertainment network which is probably why the tone of the violence was toned down in retrospect and some might say not enough.
I can't imagine what really happened to John McCain during his time there. I have not read his book but I do imagine that it was far more worse than the film portrays to be.
I think in all that the film does it's best despite probably a limited budget and a cast including an actor, Shawn Hatosy, who does a remarkable job in bringing to light about a man who is both complicated and likable.
The scenes in the prison camp were probably toned down immensely as if not to turn us off from the movie.
As a granddaughter of a POW during World War II, I can't imagine the horrors of the camps. For John McCain, he was offered amnesty and freedom long before he was actually released.
This film shows how his character was already defined by his family make-up, his first marriage, and his relationship with his military father.
Anybody else would have longed to escape such nightmarish conditions but JOhn would rather lie than give up his men or break the honor code even if it meant torture and killing.
This film can and should be shown to everybody in schools and the book should be read as well.
DVD Review: Faith of My Fathers
Summary: 4 Stars
This was an excellent movie and should be seen by all Americans. John McCain has a legacy left by his father and grandfather that is instilled in him.DVD Review: Real American Hero
Summary: 4 Stars
This effective dramatization of Sen. John McCain's ordeal in the "Hanoi Hilton" prisoner of war camp for 5 years was actually released a few years ago, based on his memoir of the same name. It also deals delicately with his relationship with his father, both remote and adored, and the clearly the strongest influence in his life. It is very well acted, with a cast that I didn't recognize with the exception of Scott Glenn. In an interview with Sen McCain, he touches lightly on the accuracy of the set of the prison, and his feelings about seeing it.
Even if you read the book, the video is very worthwhile.
DVD Review: Toned down but balanced
Summary: 5 Stars
As others have noted, to create a film that could be shown on television, the violence that McCain and other POWs experienced is toned down. That distorts just what McCain went through before he signed the statement his captors were demanding. Keep that in mind as you watch this film. If most people can't stand to merely watch what he went through, what must it have been like to have endured that torture?
McCain was a POW for five and a half years, from October 27, 1967 until March 14, 1973. During that time, Jane Fonda made her infamous July 1972 visit to North Vietnam, getting photographed aiming an NVA anti-aircraft gun, something that can only be taken as an endorsement of the North Vietnamese dictatorship. The following year she would tell the New York Times, "I'm quite sure there were incidents of torture... but the pilots who were saying it was the policy of the Vietnamese and that it was systematic. I believe that's a lie."
Fonda was the liar. Grim as it is, this film is the truth.
--Michael W. Perry, editor of Chesterton on War and Peace: Battling the Ideas and Movements that Led to Nazism and World War II
DVD Review: This is Courage
Summary: 4 Stars
While not the highest quality of movie ever made, this movie does a tremendous service in highlighting the integrity and character of John McCain. Whether or not you agree with him politically, this is a movie that should be should be seen by every American that is voting this fall. This tells the story of McCain's naval service with much of the focus on his time in a North Vietnamese POW camp. McCain deserves our respect and honor for the service he has provided to this country, regardless of whether he gets your vote.
Description of Faith of My Fathers
Based on the best selling memoir by senator john mccain. Before john mccain was a presidential candidate he flew bombing missions over vietnam. Shot down he becomes an inmate at the infamous prison the hanoi hilton. For years he endures hell but his honor cannot be taken - at any price. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 05/22/2007 Starring: Scott Glenn Run time: 90 minutes Rating: Pg13"It's all about character," Jack McCain says to son John on his first day at Annapolis Naval Academy. Based on John McCain's autobiography, A&E's Faith of Our Fathers traces the senator's character-building journey from pilot to POW to war hero. Shawn Hatosy (Soldier's Girl) is John and Scott Glenn (The Right Stuff) is his four-star admiral father. The story begins in 1967 when the younger man is shot down over North Vietnam, tortured, and hospitalized--only to be tortured again. Then it flashes back to 1953 as he takes his initial steps towards a military career and life with first wife Carol (Erin Cottrell). The made-for-TV movie continues to alternate between Annapolis and Vietnam's Hanoi Hilton. The story ends after McCain is released in 1973. Although his part often feels underwritten, Hatosy shines as a man who, like his father before him, would not betray his country at any cost. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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