Tears Of The Sun
War
Columbia TriStar  (2003) 136 mins Not Rated

6.4 (26,390 votes)
A small group of American soldiers, lead by Bruce Willis’s character, are supposed to go into an African country and rescue an English doctor that is an American citizen. The rescue occurs while the African country is in the middle of a coup and massive killings are occurring. The doctor refuses to go without several of the patients that she was taking care of. Unbeknownst to the American soldiers one of those people happens to be important to the African group trying to take power. Both groups try to out run each other, as the Americans lead their group to safety across the boarder into another country....

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Cast and Crew
Bruce Willis  ......  Lieutenant A.K. Waters
Monica Bellucci  ......  Dr. Lena Fiore Kendricks
Cole Hauser  ......  James Atkins
Eamonn Walker  ......  Ellis Pettigrew
Johnny Messner  ......  Kelly Lake
Nick Chinlund  ......  Michael Slowenski
Director  .....  Antoine Fuqua
Producer  .....  Ian Bryce; Joe Roth; Mike Lobell
Writer  .....  Alex Lasker; Patrick Cirillo
Cinematography  .....  Mauro Fiore
Musician  .....  Lisa Gerrard; Hans Zimmer
Notes
Goofs:
Continuity: When the F-18 is launched at the end of the movie it has no weapons loaded on its pylons. When they are in the air they are shown to have a full weapons load. (more)

Trivia:
The script was considered as part of the Die Hard (1988) series. (more)

Filming Locations:
Dole Plantation - 64-1550 Kamehameha Highway, Wahiawa, O`ahu, Hawaii, USA (more)

Quotes:
[first lines]
Female news reader: [voiceover] The tension that had been brewing for months in Nigeria exploded yesterday as exiled General Mustafa Yakubu orchestrated a swift and violent coup against the democratically elected government of President Samuel Azuka. In a land with 120 million people and over 250 ethnic groups...
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Awards:
2 nominations (more)