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Machine gun preacher [videorecording] / Relativity Media presents in association with Virgin Produced, a Safady Entertainment, Apparatus, GG Filmz production ; produced by Robbie Brenner [and others] ; written by Jason Keller ; directed by Marc Forster.

Forster, Marc, 1969- (film director.). Brenner, Robbie, (film producer.). Keller, Jason, 1968- (screenwriter.). Butler, Gerard, 1969- (actor.). Monaghan, Michelle, (actor.). Baker, Kathy, 1950- (actor.). Shannon, Michael, 1974- (actor.). Apparatus Productions. (Added Author). GG Filmz. (Added Author). Relativity Media. (Added Author). Safady Entertainment (Firm) (Added Author). Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc. (Added Author). Virgin Produced (Firm) (Added Author). Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan, Kathy Baker, Michael Shannon. (Cast).

Summary:

Sam Childers is a drug-dealing criminal who undergoes an astonishing spiritual transformation and makes a life-changing decision to travel to war-torn East Africa. After witnessing unspeakable horrors faced by innocent children, he vows to save them at any cost, including his own safety. Childers begins waging a relentless battle against the territory's renegade militia, leading harrowing missions behind enemy lines to rescue kidnapped orphans and restore peace to their lives and eventually his own.

Record details

  • Physical Description: 1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Publisher: Beverly Hills, California : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2012]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Based on a true story.
DVD release of the 2011 motion picture.
Special features include Making the music for Machine gun preacher and theatrical trailer.
Creation/Production Credits Note:
Music, Asche & Spencer ; editor, Matt Chesse ; director of photography, Roberto Schaefer.
Participant or Performer Note:
Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan, Kathy Baker, Michael Shannon.
Target Audience Note:
MPAA rating: R; for violent content including disturbing images, language, some drug use and a scene of sexuality.
System Details Note:
DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen (2.40:1) presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1 surround.
Language Note:
In English, with optional English SDH or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned in English.

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Sudan > History > Darfur Conflict, 2003- > Drama.
Genre:
Feature films.
Action and adventure films.
Biographical films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

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