Miracle at St. Anna
By
Director:
Spike Lee
Stars: Derek Luke, Michael Ealy, Laz Alonso
Studio: Touchstone Pictures
The Plot: A murder committed by post-office worker Hector Negron in 1984 sets in motion an investigation that ties back to the experiences of a battalion of black American soldiers who became trapped in a Tuscan village during WWII.
THE BUZZ: The Emmy-winning “When the Levees Broke” and the box-office topping Inside Man have made Spike Lee one of the busiest independent director/producers on either coast (Lee has sequels to both projects in mind, too; in fact, IM 2 is being written right NOW!), and now he’s bringing a different WWII perspective to the big screen with Miracle at St. Anna. And he’s not stopping for air while taking swipes at Clint and the Coens and angering Italians for revising bits of their WWII history. So will some other sort of miracle earn Lee his first-ever Oscar? Well, I imagine he has a better chance than, say, Oliver Stone this year, but a lot is riding on how Disney will market the film and how much of a push it will receive. (We hear Disney had to put the kibosh on Lee’s Eastwood comments, however, if he wants to make a good impression on the Academy — a move which might cause the director to abandon studio filmmaking for a spell?) Another factor not helping his campaign: The fact that Anna didn’t exactly stir audiences at its Toronto Film Festival premiere.
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