Jerry (Jamie Draven) was an idealist when he served in the first Gulf War. But when he was later deployed to Iraq, Jerry was an older man, a father of three and embittered by broken promises and unfulfilled desires. When Jerry returns from Iraq he has been transformed by horrors that cannot be forgiven. He lives a life of poverty, his children afraid of him and his wife, Nora (Vinessa Shaw), unsympathetic and unhappy. When Jerry discovers that Nora has betrayed him, his anger and despair drive him to commit an act so heinous and irreversible that nothing he had experienced in combat could have prepared him for.
Acting
Draven's descent from man to hollowed shell is devastating.
Direction
Lucente refuses to let you look away for 165 minutes.
Director
Francesco Lucente
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during peak Iraq War fatigue, this film dared suggest the real battle begins at home—and lost most audiences who didn't want to hear it.
Grace Caroline Currey (then Grace Fulton) plays Jerry's daughter years before becoming Shazam's Mary Marvel—making her childhood trauma here doubly haunting in retrospect.
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