Johnny Got His Gun (2008)
- Director(s):
- Rowan Joseph
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- NR
Synopsis of Johnny Got His Gun
Dalton Trumbo's haunting anti-war drama comes to the screen for the second time in this filmed version of the stage play starring Ben McKenzie. On the last day of World War I, American soldier Joe Bonham is hit by an artillery shell an instantly rendered a quadruple amputee. Later, as Joe regains consciousness in his hospital bed, he realizes to his horror that he has also lost his senses of sight, smell, sound, and speech. Though Joe's capacity for reasoning is in tack and his brain is still fully functional, it's locked in a broken shell of a body, leaving him hopelessly trapped in his own imagination. His only means of communicating with the outside world is to tap his head in Morse code, but do the doctors even realize what he's trying to say? Eventually, his desperate message gets though: Joe wants to be put on display as a living example of the devastating cost of war. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Director(s):
- Rowan Joseph
- Writer(s):
- Bradley Rand Smith
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- NR(Adult Situations, Not For Children, Brief Nudity, Adult Language)
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