Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll and director Taylor Hackford
While Taylor Hackford is best known for directing dramas like An Officer and a Gentleman, The Devil's Advocate and Ray, his documentaries may be some of his most interesting work. After getting his start as an investigative reporter for public television in Los Angeles, the silver-bearded cineaste went on to helm 1987's
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Question: I saw a trailer a few months ago and didn't recognize any of the actors, so it may have been a foreign film. It was about a set of brothers and a woman; one goes to war and is taken hostage. The family assumes he's dead and the other brother ends up falling in love with the wife; then the presumed-dead brother returns. Is this movie available on DVD or not even in theaters yet? It looked really interesting, and any help you could give me in finding it would be great.Answer: You saw a trailer for the exceptional Danish film Brothers (2004). The only cast member most Americans would know is Connie Nielsen, who is Danish but had never made a film in her native language until Brothers; she started her movie career in France and then moved to the U.S., where she starred in films like
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