A.W.O.L. (2006 film)

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A.W.O.L.
Directed by	Jack Swanstrom
Produced by	Mir Bahmanyar Shane Black (as Harry Lime) Sukee Chew George Ender Jack Swanstrom Tiffany Van Ostrand Jessica Wethington
Written by	Shane Black
Starring	David Morse John C. McGinley Caroline Kristiahn
Music by	Daniel Lessner William Richter
Cinematography	Lynda Cohen
Editing by	Susan K. Hoover
Release date(s)	2006
Running time	20 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
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A.W.O.L. is a 2006 film starring David Morse, John C. McGinley, and Caroline Kristiahn.

It was written by Shane Black (under the pseudonym "Holly Martins") and directed by Jack Swanstrom.

[edit] Plot

A US Army Special Forces squad, lead by Major Cliff Marquette (David Morse) is tasked to secure a remote jungle shrine in Vietnam. Amongst other things they find case of prisoner abuse at hands of marines guarding the site, leading to a confrontation between Marquette and the marine in charge, Garris (John C. McGinley). A sudden enemy attack results in almost total casualty for the Americans, and lands Marquette a POW in the hands of a merciless Viet Cong torturer (Roberto Kawata). In the course of his agonizing torture, Marquette is instantly transported to a mundane and unrecognizable life with a loving wife (Caroline Kristiahn) and two children he's never seen before. Even as Marquette struggles to cope with his new reality he finds to his horror, that the war returns to him every midnight, when he is back in Vietnam to relive his torture.