A drama based on a true story when the Stirn family lived next to a Nazi POW camp in Wisconsin during W.W.II.A drama based on a true story when the Stirn family lived next to a Nazi POW camp in Wisconsin during W.W.II.A drama based on a true story when the Stirn family lived next to a Nazi POW camp in Wisconsin during W.W.II.
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For those of us who grew up in this era, this movie was a very lovely trip down memory lane. As others have commented, the acting in this movie was not the best, but the attempt to recreate the era was quite realistic and exceptionally well done. The living conditions, the technology, the social mores and the nature of life at the time were very accurate well depicted.
I personally served at Ft McCoy and can vouch for the authenticity of the site and the facilities depicted in the film. This is a film that preserves an important historic story about a special place, like many other such places in WWII, and a unique group of people serving their county in whatever way they could and trying at the same time to preserve some sense of normalcy. I highly recommend it.
I personally served at Ft McCoy and can vouch for the authenticity of the site and the facilities depicted in the film. This is a film that preserves an important historic story about a special place, like many other such places in WWII, and a unique group of people serving their county in whatever way they could and trying at the same time to preserve some sense of normalcy. I highly recommend it.
- douglasross01
- Sep 4, 2015
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Did you know
- TriviaThe movie theater in Sparta, WI. is actually the Historic Hollywood theater in La Crosse, WI.
- GoofsPW's were not allowed to wear their uniforms except at funerals. The SS officer would not have been wearing his SS uniform and certainly not a Swastika since political emblems were not allowed.
- Quotes
Lester Stirn: [Asking his older sister after buying some candy from Delilah] Why does her skin stick up?
Gertie Stirn: It's her bosom.
- ConnectionsFeatures Meet Me In St. Louis (1944)
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- Also known as
- Форт МакКой
- Filming locations
- La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA(Hollywood Theater)
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- Budget
- $3,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $78,948
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $4,070
- Aug 17, 2014
- Gross worldwide
- $78,948
- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
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