Sneak Peek: Hacksaw Ridge
HACKSAW RIDGE is the extraordinary true story of Desmond Doss [Andrew Garfield] who, in Okinawa during the bloodiest battle of WWII, saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun. He was the only American soldier in WWII to fight on the front lines without a weapon, as he believed that while the war was justified, killing was nevertheless wrong. As an army medic, he single-handedly evacuated the wounded from behind enemy lines, braved fire while tending to soldiers and was wounded by a grenade and hit by snipers. Doss was the first conscientious objector awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Cast: Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, Luke Bracey, Teresa Palmer, Hugo Weaving, Rachel Griffiths, and Vince Vaughn
Directed by: Mel Gibson
Screenplay by: Robert Schenkkan and Andrew Knight
Produced by: David Permut, p.g.a., Bill Mechanic, p.g.a., Brian Oliver, William D. Johnson, Bruce Davey, Paul Currie, Terry Benedict
Genre: Drama, Action
Rating: R for intense prolonged realistically graphic sequences of war violence including grisly bloody images.
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Running Time: 138 minutes
