A.W.O.L. (2006 film)

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name = A.W.O.L.


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director = Jack Swanstrom
producer = Mir Bahmanyar
Shane Black (as Harry Lime)
Sukee Chew
George Ender
Jack Swanstrom
Tiffany Van Ostrand
Jessica Wethington
writer = Shane Black
starring = David Morse
John C. McGinley
Caroline Kristiahn
music = Daniel Lessner
William Richter
cinematography = Lynda Cohen
editing = Susan K. Hoover
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released = 2006
runtime = 20 min.
country = United States
language = English
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imdb_id = 0138992 |

"A.W.O.L." is a 2006 film starring David Morse, John C. McGinley, and Caroline Kristiahn.

It was written by Shane Black (under the pseudonym "Holly Martins") and directed by Jack Swanstrom.

Plot

A US Army Special Forces squad, lead by Major Cliff Marquette (David Morse) is tasked to secure a remote jungle shrine in Vietnam. Amongst other things they find case of prisoner abuse at hands of marines guarding the site, leading to a confrontation between Marquette and the marine in charge, Garris (John C. McGinley). A sudden enemy attack results in almost total casualty for the Americans, and lands Marquette a POW in the hands of a merciless Viet Cong torturer (Roberto Kawata). In the course of his agonizing torture, Marquette is instantly transported to a mundane and unrecognizable life with a loving wife (Caroline Kristiahn) and two children he's never seen before. Even as Marquette struggles to cope with his new reality he finds to his horror, that the war returns to him every midnight, when he is back in Vietnam to relive his torture.

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*imdb title|id=0138992|title=A.W.O.L.