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Red Dawn (2012)

Red Dawn poster
Directed by
Dan Bradley
Genre
action film, war film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 34m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 1,751 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of teenagers fight back when their Michigan town is invaded by North Korean forces. They form a guerrilla resistance to protect their home and families.

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What happens

Red Dawn is a 2012 American action war film directed by Dan Bradley and written by Carl Ellsworth and Jeremy Passmore. It is a remake of the 1984 film of the same name. The film stars Chris Hemsworth, Josh Peck, Josh Hutcherson, Adrianne Palicki, Isabel Lucas, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. The film centers on a group of teenage guerrillas defending their hometown from a North Korean invasion. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer announced its intention to remake Red Dawn in May 2008 and subsequently hired Bradley and Ellsworth. The principal characters were cast the following year and the film went into production in September 2009 in Mount Clemens, Michigan. Originally scheduled to be released on September 24, 2010, and November 24, 2010, the film was shelved because of MGM's financial troubles. While in post-production, the invading army and antagonists were changed from Chinese to North Korean in order to maintain access to the Chinese box office, though the film was still not released in China. Because of MGM's bankruptcy, the distribution rights were sold to FilmDistrict in September 2011 and the film was released in the United States on November 21, 2012, to mostly negative reviews. It grossed $51 million against its $65 million budget. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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