Synopsis
The military draft is back. Three best friends are drafted and given 30 days to report for duty. In that time they're forced to confront everything they believe about courage, duty, love, friendship and honor. If called to serve, what would you do?
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Cast
- Elijah WoodAaron Feller
- Chris KleinGeorge Rifkin
- Ginnifer GoodwinMolly Rifkin
- Ally SheedyDr. Reynolds
- Jon BernthalJams Dixon
- Elisabeth MossPatricia
- Sofia VassilievaMara
- John RothmanRifkin's Father
- Robert HoganSenior Partner
- Clark MiddletonPorn Clerk
Recommendations
- 63
New York Daily News
What's good about the idea is that it triggers the kind of debate we would be having over Iraq if there was a draft. What's bad about it is that the three main characters in Robert Malkani's script - anti-war lawyer George (Chris Klein), gung-ho cab driver Dixon (Jon Bernthal) and sissy novelist Aaron (Elijah Wood) - are not interesting, either as individuals or as three amigos. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
The actors -- especially Klein and Bernthal -- deliver startlingly powerful performances. - 40
The New York Times
Its view of the near future may be vaguely plausible and its performances persuasive, but its formulaic construction, internal inconsistencies and fuzzy ending undermine its integrity. It has nothing to say about the big issues -- manhood, war and friendship -- that hasn’t been explored with more depth and honesty in a hundred other movies. - 38
New York Post
A lukewarm film about what might happen to three New York City friends if the draft were reinstated, proves that even the most controversial of topics can be the basis for the dullest indie films. - 30
Village Voice
With ludicrous gravity and a narrow-minded view of courage and conviction, the film's what-if scenario is presented as a reality check to every ostensibly unimaginative male who's come of age in the draftless years since Vietnam.
