Meryl Streep – Tribute

Cast: Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Tom Cruise

Director: Robert Redford

Writer: Matthew Michael Carnahan

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American drama film. The film was partly based on Operation Red Wing, an unsuccessful SEAL operation in Afghanistan. It has three story lines, a congressman who launches a new military strategy and details it to a journalist, two soldiers involved in unsuccessful operation, and their college teacher trying to encourage a promising student to take a stand in life.

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Trivia provided by The Internet Movie Database:

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• In an interview to the Variety magazine, Tom Cruise said he had made the film out of deep respect for Robert Redford’s body of work, which he said had inspired him since Ordinary People (1980).

• Release prints were delivered to theaters with the fake title ‘Barrie’.

• The state flag in Irving’s office is Illinois’.

• The combat patch worn by many of the special forces soldiers (including LTC Falco) is from the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, which is garrisoned at Fort Irwin, California.

• The photo that Jenine (Meryl Streep) observes on Senator Irving’s (Tom Cruise) office wall of him dressed as a young cadet is a still photo from Cruise’s role in the 1981 film Taps (1981).