Released into theaters on the fifth anniversary of the 2003 Iraq War when the number of U.S. soldiers killed topped 4000, producers/directors Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro's powerful documentary takes a microcosmic look at the war and its devastation by focusing on a single casualty: Tomas Young, a 25-year-old enlistee from Kansas City, MO, who returned from Iraq after a brief tour of duty paralyzed from the chest down.
Like a lot of future American soldiers, Young went down to his local recruitment office in the days after 9/11 determined to help stop the people who had wreaked such destruction on his country. Young expected to go to Afghanistan but eventua...
Released:
2008
Rated:
NR
Length:
87 mins