 Rescue Dawn
Starring: Christian Bale, Steve Zahn, Marshall Bell, François Chau, Jeremy Davies, Craig Gellis, GQ
Directed by: Werner Herzog
Screenplay by: Werner Herzog
Release Date: July 4th, 2007
Running Time: 120 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some sequences of intense war violence and torture.
Studio: Metro Goldwyn Mayer
 Domestic: $5,490,423 (76.6%)
Foreign: $1,680,137 (23.4%)
Total: $7,170,560 (Worldwide)
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 Based on the true story of German-born Dieter Dengler, who dreamed of being a test pilot and thus made his way to America, where he joined the military in pursuit of his obsession to fly. On his first mission in Vietnam, he is shot down and captured by Vietcong guerrillas.
In the annals of history's great escapes there is no other story like that of Dieter Dengler, the only American to ever break out of a POW camp in the impenetrable Laotian jungle. After months plotting his getaway and a death-defying journey through some of the world's fiercest wilderness, Dengler appeared at his first press conference looking like a dashing movie star and showing neither sentimentality nor bitterness - simply an indomitable will to survive that allowed him to triumph against impossible odds.
Now, from legendary director Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, Fitzcarroldo) and starring acclaimed actor Christian Bale (Batman Begins, The Prestige) comes the incredible true story of a renegade who, from the depths of total darkness, blazed his own willful path to freedom.
A blistering adventure and a stark epic of survival, Rescue Dawn reveals how Dieter Dengler relied on the most primal qualities of evasion, endurance, tenacity and courage to find his way home.
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