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- 2023
- R
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- 2 h 2 m
- 2023
- R
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- 2 h 2 m
Summary A Marine wounded in Afghanistan returns to a VA hospital in Montana where he meets a Vietnam vet who teaches him fly fishing as a means to coming to terms with his physical and emotional trauma.
Directed By: Joshua Caldwell
Written By: Stephen Camelio
- 2023
- R
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- 2 h 2 m
- 2023
- R
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- 2 h 2 m
Mending the Line
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Summary A Marine wounded in Afghanistan returns to a VA hospital in Montana where he meets a Vietnam vet who teaches him fly fishing as a means to coming to terms with his physical and emotional trauma.
Directed By: Joshua Caldwell
Written By: Stephen Camelio
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The patience of the sport and the tranquility of the settings casts a spell, and it all comes together in modestly, honestly moving ways.
The cranky old-coot humor between Studi and Cox is a welcome break, and there could have been more of it.
In general, Stephen Camelio’s script, sensitive and convincing as it is, attempts to pack too much emotion, back story and metaphor into a relatively slender tale. The result is a two-hour film that would have benefited from a judicious trim, a quickened pace and less melodrama.
The title of the film “Mending the Line” refers to an adjustment to a fly-fishing line to counter the effects of water currents. But there’s a lot more than the placement of a filament that needs to be remedied in this well-meaning but inert PTSD melodrama.
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Production Company
ArtImage Entertainment,
August Point Productions,
CKM Entertainment,
Meydenbauer Entertainment,
U.S. Department Of Defense, US Navy,
U.S. Marine Corps Entertainment & Media
Release Date Jun 9, 2023
Duration 2 h 2 m
Rating R
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Awards
San Diego International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
