Boys of Abu Ghraib

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Boys of Abu Ghraib

R

2014

1h 42m

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

War

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A rookie guard (Luke Moran) at the Abu Ghraib prison secretly befriends an Iraqi detainee who is suspected of constructing a bomb that killed innocent civilians.

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Mark Jenkins

NPR

03/30/2014

Boys of Abu Ghraib is a credible depiction of the tedium, frustration and humiliation of wartime service.

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Dennis Harvey

Variety

03/28/2014

Writer-director-star Luke Moran's drama about Abu Ghraib is an ambitious if not particularly revealing debut.

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Brian Tallerico

RogerEbert.com

03/28/2014

1.5/4

"Boys of Abu Ghraib" has a few, brief insights into how boredom, anger, and frustration helped fuel the rage that led to torture but the film couches it all in the filmmaking of TV-movie melodrama, draining it of all potential power or social context.

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Todd Jorgenson

Cinemalogue

03/28/2014

Its tendency to water down the realities of Abu Ghraib trivializes its subject instead of providing depth or context.

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Maitland McDonagh

Film Journal International

03/28/2014

Moran's writing and directing debut is an admirably ambitious examination of the one-baby-step-at-a-time process that leads a fundamentally decent person to shut down his moral compass do things that are, by any objective standard, reprehensible.

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Ari V

Aug 8

A few promising scenes but ultimately it's overpowered by whitewashing apologetics disguised as candor and innocence. No way someone who did honest research on the topic, would honestly come up with something like this.

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04/24/2021

Such a good movie till they complete changed the whole build up of the movie. It was so good but they really messed it up towards the end.

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04/15/2017

Started a bit slow, but it got very intense shortly thereafter. I can't put all my feelings about the movie into one paragraph...just to say that it's well worth watching.

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02/23/2016

Amazing movie! I watched it 2 times because it was just THAT interesting

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02/23/2016

This was an awesome movie! Would recommend to everyone!

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01/22/2016

Hmmmm Not as good as camp x ray with Kristen Stewart

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Synopsis

A rookie guard (Luke Moran) at the Abu Ghraib prison secretly befriends an Iraqi detainee who is suspected of constructing a bomb that killed innocent civilians.

Director: Luke Moran
Producer: Cru Ennis, Luke Moran
Screenwriter: Luke Moran
Distributor: Vertical Entertainment
Production Co: Rebel One Pictures
Rating: R (Language Throughout|Disturbing Situations|Some Sexual Content|Torture/Violence)
Genre: Drama, Mystery & Thriller, War
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 28, 2014, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 24, 2014
Runtime: 1h 42m

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