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17 September 1999 (UK) moreTagline:
It is a place 8ft wide, 600 miles long, man-made and God-forsaken.Plot Keywords:
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2 nominations moreUser Comments:
trench life made to look cosy moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Paul Nicholls | ... | Pte. Billy Macfarlane | |
| Daniel Craig | ... | Sgt. Telford Winter | |
| Julian Rhind-Tutt | ... | 2nd Lt. Ellis Harte | |
| Danny Dyer | ... | Lance Cpl. Victor Dell | |
| James D'Arcy | ... | Pte. Colin Daventry | |
| Tam Williams | ... | Pte. Eddie Macfarlane | |
| Anthony Strachan | ... | Pte. Horace Beckwith | |
| Michael Moreland | ... | Pte. George Hogg | |
| Adrian Lukis | ... | Lt. Col. Villiers | |
| Ciarán McMenamin | ... | Pte. Charlie Ambrose | |
| Cillian Murphy | ... | Rag Rookwood | |
| John Higgins | ... | Pte. Cornwallis | |
| Ben Whishaw | ... | Pte. James Deamis | |
| Tim Murphy | ... | Pte. Bone | |
| Danny Nutt | ... | Pte. Dieter Zimmermann |
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In preparation for the film, the director sent to main cast to a replica trench for a night to experience the conditions the British army suffered. moreGoofs:
Revealing mistakes: When Eddie looks out the loophole, no mans land is a clear green field. When the Winter and Beckwith do the raid, Beckwith claims there is a a ton of wire left. During the final attack, there is no wire. Also, due to the weeks of bombing it is likely that the ground would be a bit rough and muddy. moreFAQ
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Strangely this film has grown on me and I'm not sure why but still have a hate for it. The acting is fairly sound and it has some good moments but there isn't much feel for realism. For a start the trenches would have been infested with rats and lice and from what I've read about The Somme it seemed a lot more draumatic than what was portrayed in this film. It just looked too clean. The main hardship they had experienced was boredom, not relentless rain and the constant madness of bombardments. Also what was the point of capturing a German and then not interrogate him, but give him a fag and then let him go? Another wrong point is that the battalions would have been from the same region. Yeh, I'm being picky but why the scots were with southerners and northerners I don't know. The end of the film is the worst. Surely if there had been nights of endless shelling you'd expect to see some shell holes when going over the top? Could of had a nice picnic on that land. Shame, if the director had read more relevant books it could have been really good.