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Cast:
Ewan
McGregor , Josh
Hartnett , Tom
Sizemore , William
Fichtner , Eric
Bana ,
Ewen
Bremner , Sam
Shepard , Ioan
Gruffudd , Ron
Eldard , Kim
Coates
A quickly
forgotten chapter in United States military history is relived in this
harrowing war drama from director Ridley Scott, based on a series of
Philadelphia Inquirer articles and subsequent book by reporter Mark
Bowden. On
October 3rd, 1993, an elite team of more than 100 Delta Force soldiers
and Army
Rangers, part of a larger United Nations peacekeeping force, are
dropped into
civil war-torn Mogadishu, Somalia, in an effort to kidnap two of local
crime
lord Mohamed Farah Aidid's top lieutenants. Among the team: Staff Sgt.
Matt
Eversmann (Josh Hartnett), Ranger Lt. Col. Danny McKnight (Tom
Sizemore), the
resourceful Delta Sgt. First Class Jeff Sanderson (William Fichtner),
and
Ranger Spec. Grimes (Ewan McGregor), a desk-bound clerk getting his
first taste
of live combat… |