Courage Under Fire

Courage Under Fire

Movie |

Tank | War Veteran

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  • Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Mystery, War
  • Language(s): English
  • Director(s): Jane Goldsmith, Skip Cosper, Edward Zwick
  • Cast(s): Meg Ryan, Lou Diamond Phillips, Matt Damon, Michael Moriarty, Michole Briana White See all Cast & Crew
  • Duration: 1h 57min
  • Music: Anna Behlmer,James Horner,Per Hallberg,Andy Nelson
  • Award(s): Lone Star Film & Television 1997 (Won)
    CFCA 1997 (Nominated) Awards List
  • Similar To: The Good German, Eye in the Sky
  • Story:
    A US Army officer had made a "friendly fire" mistake that was covered up and he was reassigned to a desk job. Later he was tasked to investigate a female chopper commander's worthiness to be awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously. At first all seemed in order then he begins to notice inconsistencies between the testimonies of the witnesses....
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6.6/10
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STORY AND RATINGS

Story
A US Army officer had made a "friendly fire" mistake that was covered up and he was reassigned to a desk job. Later he was tasked to investigate a female chopper commander's worthiness to be awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously. At first all seemed in order then he begins to notice inconsistencies between the testimonies of the witnesses....
Ratings

6.6/10

IMDb

AWARDS

Won
Lone Star Film & Television Award

Best Screenplay | 1997 | Patrick Sheane

Best Film | 1997

Best Actor | 1997 | Denzel

Best Supporting Actor | 1997 | Lou Diamond

Best Director | 1997 | Edward

ASCAP Award

Top Box Office Films | 1997 | James

Image Award

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Motion Picture | 1997 | Denzel

SEFCA Award

Best Actor | 1997 | Denzel

Blockbuster Entertainment Award

Favorite Supporting Actor AdventureDrama | 1997 | Lou Diamond

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Nominations
CFCA Award

Best Actor | 1997 | Denzel

OFTA Film Award

Best Drama Actor | 1997 | Denzel

SEFCA Award

Best Picture | 1997

Image Award

Outstanding Motion Picture | 1997

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture | 1997 | Regina

DFWFCA Award

Best Picture | 1997

BSFC Award

Best Actor | 1996 | Denzel

BOX OFFICE

Budget 46,000,000 USD

Box Office Collection 100,860,818 USD

TRIVIA AND POPULAR DIALOGUES

Trivia

In order to lose the required amount of weight for the present-day scenes, Matt Damon went on a strict regimen of food deprivation and physical training. This caused his health to become so frail that he was put on medical supervision for several months after the shoot. However, his efforts didn't go unnoticed: director Francis Ford Coppola was so impressed by Damon's display of method acting that he offered him the leading role in The Rainmaker (1997). While making Good Will Hunting (1997), after regaining his healthy weight, Damon met Steven Spielberg (who was then casting Saving Private Ryan (1998)). Spielberg told Damon that he had loved his performance in this movie and had wanted to hire him to play Private Ryan, but was afraid that Damon was too skinny. Once Spielberg saw Damon at his normal weight, he hired him for Ryan.

In an October 2009 interview, Bronson Pinchot said that Denzel Washington was verbally abusive to him and others on the set, for the sake of "staying in character".

In actuality, Dr. Mary Edwards Walker is the only female to be awarded the Medal of Honor for her services as a surgeon during the Civil War.

Matt Damon not only went on an extreme diet, he would also run twelve miles a day, drinking four to six pots of coffee to muster up the energy. His extreme dieting went to the point where he had to had to wash his mouth every time his girlfriend kissed him, because he could taste what she had been eating. Director Edward Zwick got so scared by Damon's emaciated appearance that he ordered the actor to start eating again, but Damon refused. Unfortunately for him, as he was not an established star at the time, he had to do all of this under his own steam, without the help of a nutritionist. After filming was done, Damon was diagnosed with deregulated blood sugar, which required medication. It would take Damon a good two years to get his body back to normal.

Matt Damon lost forty pounds for his role in the movie.

Popular Dialogues

"Nathaniel Serling: I work at the Pentagon, Sergeant, so I'll admit I'm a little slow on the uptake, otherwise I'd say that you just threatened me. Did you just threaten me, soldier? Because if you did, let me respond to you... [turns off tape recorder] Nathaniel Serling: Let me respond to you this way. I'm an officer, and therefore, by proclamation, a gentleman, but don't abuse that, son. Don't get in my crosshairs, because I'll have no compunction whatsoever about getting up to my neck in yo' ass. Do you understand me?"

"Monfriez: Sir, if you get a hangfire on your weapon, what do you do? You wait, with your weapon pointed in a safe direction, 'cause sometimes the primer bursts, and if you open the chamber it blows up in your face. Leave this round in the chamber, sir."