Title: 12 Strong
Original Title: 12 Strong
Year: 2018
Info
- Country: USA
- Language: English
- Length: 130 Minutes (2 hours 10 min)
- Budget: $35,000,000
- Genre: Drama Action History
- Studios: Alcon Entertainment Black Label Media Jerry Bruckheimer Films
- Distributor: eOne Films
- Age rating: 15 (Suitable only for 15 years and over)
Release Dates
- UK: January 26 2018
- United States: January 18 2018
Plot
After the 9/11 attacks, a Special Forces team commanded by Captain Mitch Nelson (Chris Hemsworth) is chosen for the first American soldiers to respond to the attack. The team is transferred to the remote and northern African lands, where the resolution of General Abdul Rashid Dostum (Navid Negahban) is required to fight against his common adversary: the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
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Videos
December 11 2017
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Trivia
The Curious Case of Rob Riggle
Rob Riggle plays Colonel Max Bowers, former battalion commander of the 5th Special Forces Group, in the movie. Riggle, a Marine, actually served directly under the real Bowers during the same time period the movie is based on.
Cinematographic adaptation
The movie is based on Doug Stanton's non-fiction book 'Horse Soldiers'.
Dostum words
General Abdul Rashid Dostum was quoted, 'I asked for a few Americans, they brought with them the courage of a whole Army' according to eyewitness Robert Young Pelton's in his March 2002 National Geographic Adventure article "The Legend of Heavy D and the Boys".
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