Sand Castle (2017)

Directed by

Fernando Coimbra

Genre

drama film, war film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 53m

Rated

16

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 869 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young American soldier is sent to a hostile village in Iraq on a mission to fix the water supply. The situation there challenges his sense of duty and survival.

tensesombergrittysuspensefulweightedseriousintensebleak

What happens

Sand Castle is a 2017 American war drama film directed by Fernando Coimbra and written by Chris Roessner. The film stars Nicholas Hoult, Logan Marshall-Green, Henry Cavill, Glen Powell, Tommy Flanagan, Beau Knapp, and Neil Brown Jr. The film centers on Matt Ocre, a young soldier in the United States Army, who is tasked with restoring water to a village in Iraq. It is inspired by Roessner's experience as a soldier in the Iraq War. It was released on April 21, 2017, on Netflix. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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