The Patriot (2000)

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Written by Robert Rodat

Directed by Roland Emmerich

Running Time: 164 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 2000

Rating: 15 Certificate

Filmed in Colour

American Revolution drama in which a widowed farmer (Mel Gibson) forms a regiment of Carolina patriots, whose guerrilla tactics prove pivotal to the US war effort.

He has a brave but brutal military past, yet decides not to join up when the British arrive in 1776.

However, when his son (Heath Ledger) 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.

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Cast

Mel GibsonColonel Benjamin 'The Ghost' Martin
Image for Heath LedgerHeath LedgerCorporal Gabriel Edward Martin
Joely RichardsonAunt Charlotte Putnam Selton/Mrs. Charlotte Martin
Jason IsaacsColonel William Tavington
Chris CooperColonel Harry Burwell
Tchéky KaryoMajor Jean Villeneuve
René AuberjonoisReverend Oliver
Lisa BrennerAnne Patricia Howard/Mrs. Anne Martin
Tom WilkinsonGeneral Sir Charles Cornwallis
Donal LogueDan Scott
Leon RippyJohn Billings

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