| | | Some things are worth fighting for.
Features: DVD, Spanish, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 2.35:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), English, Subtitled
The emotionally charged adventure The Patriot tells the story of Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson), a reluctant hero who is swept into the American Revolution when the war reaches his farm and the British endanger what he holds most dear. He takes up arms alongside his idealistic patriot son, Gabriel, and leads a rebel American Militia into battle against a relentless and overwhelming Redcoat army. In the process, he discovers that the only way to protect his family is to fight for a young nation's liberty. But his dark past haunts him.
"Two thumbs up." Roger Ebert At The Movies
Editor's Note
Mel Gibson stars in this action-packed historical drama from the director of INDEPENDENCE DAY and GODZILLA. Gibson portrays Benjamin Martin, an unassuming South Carolina widower who is forced to join the American Revolution when the British threaten to take his farm away from him. Together with his patriotic son, Gabriel (Heath Ledger), the pair faces the vicious Redcoats with a heroism that reflects the stubborn pride of a young country's most dedicated supporters. THE PATRIOT is a sweeping epic adventure that sheds light on America's past, and at the same time entertains audiences.
Plot Summary
In this Revolutionary War epic from director Roland Emmerich (INDEPENDENCE DAY, GODZILLA) and writer Robert Rodat (SAVING PRIVATE RYAN), history unfolds as one man struggles to bury his demons and keep his family whole. Mel Gibson plays reluctant hero Benjamin Martin, a man who fought with both heroism and brutality in the French and Indian War, but who is now seeking to peacefully tend his own fields and ignore the later and greater conflict. Despite Martin's scrupulous parenting, however, his idealistic son Gabriel (Heath Ledger) leaves home to join the colonial army. Soon the war is literally on Martin's doorstep; a cruel British officer named Tavington (Jason Isaacs) kills one of his children and unwittingly galvanizes Martin, Gabriel, and a ragtag militia of locals into a fierce guerilla unit bent on revenge and liberty.THE PATRIOT is concerned with honor among soldiers, finding and losing love in the midst of chaos, and also with a tactical shift from open-field combat to the hide-and-fight strategies that would come into their own in modern warfare. The historical details are imaginative, to say the least, but the spectacle is what's really effective in bringing the fight for independence to life.
| Features | Menus In English, Spanish, Portuguese | | Digitally Mastered Audio & Anamorphic Video | | Production Notes | | Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 English, Spanish, Portuguese | | Subtitles: English, Spanish, Portuguese | | Widescreen Version | | Photo Gallery | | Weblink | | Talent Files | | "The True Patriots" Featurette | | Deleted Scenes With Commentary By Roland Emmerich | | Conceptual Art To Film Comparisons | | Audio Commentary By Director Roland Emmerich And Producer Dean Devlin. | | Visual Effects Interactive Featurette | | Battlefield Featurette: "The Art Of War" |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Columbia Tri-Star |
| Release Date: 3/27/2007 |
| Running Time: 165 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2000 | | Catalog ID: 09801 | | UPC: 00043396098015 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English, Spanish Dubbed | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 2.35:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (2001) | | | John Williams, Nominee, Best Music, Original Score |
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| | Professional Reviews | Rolling Stone
"...THE PATRIOT has 'hit' written all over it..." 06/08/2000 p.134New York Times
"...Gibson shows an on-screen comfort and expansiveness he has not revealed before..." 06/28/2000 pp.E1-E6 USA Today
"...Viscerally historical....THE PATRIOT makes a big bang..." -- 3 out of 4 stars 06/28/2000 p.2D Sight and Sound
"...Spectacular battle scenes..." 09/01/2000 p.46-7 Premiere
"...Who can deny a movie that features enough bloody fights, burning houses, and grandiloquent speeches to fill three sequels to GONE WITH THE WIND?..." -- 3 out of 5 stars - A Satisfying Rental 12/01/2000 p.97 Rolling Stone
"...THE PATRIOT deserves a salute as the first Hollywood epic about the American Revolution to successfully blend ferocity and feeling..." 07/06/2000 p.145-6 Los Angeles Times
"...THE PATRIOT has a good sense of spectacle and is quite successful at re-creating a period that has not been brought to the screen with much success recently..." 06/28/2000 p.C1 Chicago Sun-Times
"...It is rousing and entertaining, and you get your money's worth....[Gibson gives] a powerful and effective performance..." 06/28/2000 p.209 Total Film
"...With some beautiful cinematography and a few strong doses of musket-blasting action..." 04/01/2001 p.108 Time Magazine 9 of 10
It has everything you want in an epic: sweep, scope, wild reversals of fortune and plenty of bold, basic emotions. It offers a stalwart hero and a sneering villain, bloody battles and daring rescues, tender love, heedless cruelty and, above all, scores of attractive human beings who have pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to a desperate but noble cause. What's not to like about The Patriot?... - Richard Schickel
Salon.com 8 of 10
Anchored by a gripping yet surprisingly vulnerable performance by Mel Gibson...The Patriot is majestic filmmaking... As a compelling and immensely detailed portrait of life and death in a vastly different America, and a wrenching depiction of early modern warfare at its cruelest, it provides the American Revolution with the epic film it has long deserved. - Andrew O'Hehir
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