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Actor: Kevin BaconBrand: Warner Brothers
Writer: Michael Strobl
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 77 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-05-12
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Product features:
- Based on the true experiences of Lt. Colonel Michael Strobl, who wrote eloquently of them in a widely circulated 2004 article, Taking Chance is a profoundly emotional look at the military rituals taken to honor its war dead, as represented by a fallen Marine killed in Iraq, Lance Corporal Chance Phelps. Working as a strategic analyst at Marine Corps Base Quantico in VA, Lt. Col. Strobl (Kevin Baco
DVD Reviews of Taking Chance
DVD Review: A movie for all "United States Americans"
Summary: 5 Stars
As a Regan era Marine I was highly touched by this movie (eyes welled up), as this was presented in a humbling and heart felt way. Truth tends to do that. Truth is always humbling and we are stronger for it.
Remember: Our men and women are putting them self's in harms way everyday so we have the freedom of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
I am so grateful and thankful that the Lord blessed me to be a citizen of the United States of America. The land of the free and home of the brave.
God Bless the United States of America,
Brian
DVD Review: Marine Veteran
Summary: 5 Stars
For any Marine veteran, this is an absolute must see. Kevin Bacon does a great job in showing the honor we bestow our fallen - I must admit, brings tears to my eyes. The whole presentation and the public reactions are so well documented in this drama.DVD Review: Excellent!!
Summary: 4 Stars
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Summary: 5 Stars
I have a video store a customer came in looking for this video that I ordered from Amazon and since then everyone has given rave reviews, the service was great, the DVD was a great price and the delivery was very fast, all in all in this economic time a good way to get movies for the store and good service. I have a machine to fix DVD's but this DVD though used was in a one shape.DVD Review: Terrific and respectful portrayal of a sad task.
Summary: 5 Stars
A great movie with great acting. A very sensative subject handled quite delicately. As a 20 year retired Marine, I reccomend this movie to EVERYONE. I was honored to escort three deceased Marines home during my time in the Corps (all Vietnam casualties over three tours). It was a very emotional, touching and sad experience, but it was the least I could do for three comrades whom I respected and loved. Any one of them would have done it for me. This movie brought it all back. The only difference was the respect the escort received from everyone all along the way...much different than the Vietnam experience. During my escorts, I was often insulted and made to feel like a killer. I long ago accepted this as peoples feelings about an unjust war, and not necessarily directed at those of us who fought it, but it still hurt me. A lot. But to have it happen when I was with someone who had made the ultimate sacrifice for his country made me mad and bitter. This movie actually healed a lot of that for me. The respect the Marines received from civilians they met along the way warmed me and helped me heal. A long time coming. A truly excellent movie which should be viewed by young and old alike.
Description of Taking Chance
Based on the true experiences of Lt. Colonel Michael Strobl, who wrote eloquently of them in a widely circulated 2004 article, Taking Chance is a profoundly emotional look at the military rituals taken to honor its war dead, as represented by a fallen Marine killed in Iraq, Lance Corporal Chance Phelps. Working as a strategic analyst at Marine Corps Base Quantico in VA, Lt. Col. Strobl (Kevin Bacon) learns that Phelps had once lived in his hometown, and volunteers to escort the body to its final resting place in Wyoming. As Strobl journeys across America, he discovers the great diligence and dignity in how the military, and all those involved with preparing and transporting the body, handle their duties. Equally important, he encounters hundreds of people affected by Chances death, a vast majority of whom never knew him. This collective grieving eventually causes Lt. Col. Strobl, a veteran of Desert Storm now assigned to office duty, to probe his own guilt about not re-deploying to Iraq for the current conflict. Arriving in Wyoming, Lt. Col. Strobl completes his catharsis when he encounters Chances gracious family and friends, and discovers an extraordinary outpouring of community support.The made-for-HBO Taking Chance is based on perhaps the single most moving artifact to come out of the Second Gulf War, Lt. Col. Mike Strobl's first-person narrative of his voluntary mission escorting the body of a fellow Marine killed in Iraq. Strobl (played in the film by Kevin Bacon) hadn't known Lance Cpl. Chance Phelps but, noticing they'd been born in the same western town, he requested temporary leave from his duties as a manpower-deployment analyst at Quantico in order to accompany the 20-year-old's body home. Home, as it turned out, was no longer their shared birthplace in Colorado but the high-country Wyoming town of Dubois. The journey would take Strobl deep into the heart of his nation, and his own heart as well. There's no overstating the power and beauty of what he encountered: one instance after another of not just military personnel but airline employees, passengers, and bystanders doing honor--mostly wordlessly--to Chance's coffin and his escort as they passed by. First-time director Ross Katz deserves credit for declining to inflate any of these moments or underscore their meaning with grandiloquent speechifying, and Bacon--an actor who couldn't hit a false note if his life depended on it--is true to the Desert Storm veteran's self-discipline and emotional discretion. The picture's decency is unimpeachable, and Strobl's story, transcending pro-war and anti-war politics, is itself an act of healing. What's missing is the seasoned hand of a great director (Ang Lee, say) to invest it with the rhythm and movement of a fully achieved feature film. Still, this is a journey you'll feel enriched by sharing. --Richard T. Jameson
On the DVD
Several somewhat overlapping short videos offer testimony to Chance Phelps's fun-loving spirit, heroic death, and spiritual legacy by his family, friends, and fellow Marines. They're good people. There's also a brief deleted scene--actually, portion of a scene--and some not particularly illuminating commentary on the making of the film. --Richard T. Jameson
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