Sunday, January 1, 2012

The Lucky Ones (5*)

Read the Amazon page for this movie to find out more about the actors and plot.

I enjoyed the movie so much because it showed three war vets back from Iran confronting problems that would have destroyed each of them individually. Pvt Collee Dunn attempts to connect with the family of her lover only to discover them helping care for their son's baby from another woman. Sgt Fred Cheaver finds his wife has moved on without him and wants a divorce. Their son needs money to match a scholarship at Stanford. Sgt. TK Poole has sustained a bullet injury that threatens his sexual ability, and is afraid to disgrace himself with his girlfriend.

A New York power failure forces the three to share a rental car together. More importantly their ability to support each other in wartime, comes through back home. They extend love and loyalty that helps each of them through a crisis.

The movie is extremely funny in some spots, violent in others, and freqently very sad. It is well worth the watch, great acting and a script equal to the actors. Friendship ends up sustaining the soldiers in peace as it did in war.

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