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Machine Gun Preacher (2011)

Machine Gun Preacher poster
Directed by
Marc Forster
Genre
drama film, action film, biographical film, war film, crime film
Country
United States
Runtime
2h 09m
Rated
R
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 1,146 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A former biker and drug addict finds religion and becomes a preacher. He travels to South Sudan to help children caught in a violent conflict with a rebel army.

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What happens

Machine Gun Preacher is a 2011 American biographical action drama film directed by Marc Forster and starring Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan, and Michael Shannon. It tells the story of Sam Childers, a former gang biker turned preacher, and his efforts to protect, in collaboration with the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), the children of South Sudan from the atrocities of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). The screenplay by Jason Keller was adapted from Childers' book Another Man's War and Ian Urbina's Vanity Fair article "Get Kony". The film premiered at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival and opened in the United States on September 23, 2011. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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