The Patriot (2000) - Patreon Requested Movie Review! #486

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English - December 21, 2023 00:00 - 2 hours - 119 MB - ★★★★★ - 149 ratings
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A widowed farmer, with a brave but brutal military past, decides not to join up when the British arrive in 1776. However, when his son enlists and is later captured by the enemy, the former soldier must abandon his new-found pacifist principles in order to rescue his oldest child, and forms a regiment of Carolina patriots, whose guerrilla tactics prove pivotal to the US war effort.

Release date: June 27, 2000 (USA)
Director: Roland Emmerich
Box office: 215.3 million USD
Screenplay: Robert Rodat
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Releasing
Setting: Berkeley County, South Carolina