February 20, 2014
Directed by: George Clooney; Starring: Matt Damon, George Clooney, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, John Goodman; Genre: Action | Biography | Drama; Age: + 12; Time: 120 min
Based on a true story, this action-thriller focuses on an unlikely World War II platoon, tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. It would be an impossible mission: with the art trapped behind enemy lines, and the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could seven museum directors, curators, and art historians possibly hope to succeed? But as the Monuments Men found themselves in a race against time to avoid the destruction of 1,000 years of culture, they would risk their lives to protect and defend mankind’s greatest achievements.
