A Midnight Clear
Director: Keith Gordon
Genre: Indie, Action, War film, Film adaptation, Anti-war, Anti-war film, Drama
Year: 1992
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Peter Berg, John C. McGinley, Kevin Dillon, Ethan Hawke, Gary Sinise, Arye Gross, Frank Whaley
A Midnight Clear is a 1992 American war film directed by former actor Keith Gordon with an ensemble cast featuring Ethan Hawke, Gary Sinise, Peter Berg, Kevin Dillon, and Arye Gross. Set towards the end of World War II, the film tells the story of an American intelligence unit which finds a German platoon that wishes to surrender.
In France in 1944, an American Intelligence squad locates a German platoon in the Ardennes, wishing to surrender rather than die in Germany's final war offensive. The two groups of men, isolated from the war at present, put aside their differences and spend Christmas together before the surrender plan turns bad and both sides are forced to fight each other.
The film received mostly positive reviews, with an 83% favorable rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The Washington Post reviewer lauded it as "a war film completely unlike any other, a compelling accomplishment that's more soul than blood and bullets." Vincent Canby of the New York Times praised the film's solid construction, concluding that "In A Midnight Clear, just about everything works."
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