The Ground Truth R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 18 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 26, 2006
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Focus Features
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Patricia Foulkrod | |
Music by | David Hodge | |
Cinematography by | Reuben Aaronson |
Entertainment Reviews:
THE GROUND TRUTH stand out as an especially pointed indictment of the American military's treatment of its own people on and off the battlefield.
New York Times
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Those vets certainly deserve to be heard, but virtually every scene of the film tells us something we already knew.
New York Post
Rating: 3/4 --
It's an edifying, upsetting film that offers a different perspective on the situation in the Middle East.
Newark Star-Ledger
Rating: 3/4 --
It's a haunting and welcome addition to the growing library of war documentaries; one that wisely lets its subjects speak for themselves.
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Seattle Times
Rating: 4/4 --
perhaps the most important protest statement yet committed to film since the outbreak of [the Iraq War]
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Cinema Writer
3 stars out of 5 -- Foulkrod quite expertly crafts a clear narrative by threading remarkably candid interviews from a dozen soldiers and their loved ones.
Box Office
Mostly a string of talking-head interviews, but those talking heads -- more than 16 men and women -- are compelling.
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Washington Post
Product Description:
Patricia Foulkrod's powerful documentary is another critical, eye-opening indictment of America's occupation of Iraq. While the military has mastered the art of turning young men and women into heartless killers, it hasn't bothered to consider what happens when these soldiers return to America. Confusion, depression, and guilt are but a few of the fluctuating emotions that torment these citizens on a daily basis. And those are just the emotional scars. For many veterans, the reminders are devastatingly physical. Like Robert Acosta, who lost his right hand in combat. Or parents Joyce and Kevin Lucey, whose son Jeffrey committed suicide after returning home and finding that he couldn't silence his inner demons. But Foulkrod's main objective with THE GROUND TRUTH is to expose the problem that is threatening to become an epidemic: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Since this affliction is invisible and difficult to diagnose with factual objectivity, it makes it even more troublesome. Unfortunately, the American government appears to be hiding behind this excuse in order to avoid nursing this massive contingent of tortured individuals back to health. Over the course of the film, we meet many more veterans who express their disappointment with their government's baffling lack of support, and see rare footage of recruits in boot camp, where previously calm and rational individuals are turned into ferocious, animalistic killers. No matter what side of the debate on which one stands, it's impossible not to be affected by the stories shared within Foulkrod's sobering documentary.
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- Sales Rank: 49,804
- UPC: 025193207029
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