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Cast: Mel
Gibson , Joely
Richardson , Heath
Ledger , Jason
Isaacs ,
Chris
Cooper , Lisa
Brenner , Tcheky
Karyo , Tom
Wilkinson ,
Rene
Auberjonois , Rene
Auberjonois
Gibson
portrays Benjamin Martin, an unassuming man who is forced to join the
American
Revolution when the British threaten to take his farm away from him.
Benjamin Martindistinguished himself in the French and Indian Wars but
now
lives in peace with his seven children on his sprawling South Carolina
plantation. The horrors of conflict come back to haunt him, however,
when his
headstrong eldest son Gabriel defies his orders to join the American
army.
Unwilling to get involved himself, Benjamin reluctantly joins the fight
when
second eldest son Thomas (Gregory Smith) is killed in cold blood by
sadistic
British officer, Colonel Tavington (Jason Isaacs).Determined to protect
the rest of his family and sister-in-law
Charlotte (Joely
Richardson) from harm, Benjamin takes up arms alongside his patriotic
son
Gabriel, leading a brave militia into battle against the overwhelming
English
army. |