by Eleanor Mannikka
synopsis
This period drama about the American Revolution has an overlay of rhetoric that thwarts the action, flattening out the story about a man and his loved ones caught up in the events of the time. Tom Dobb (Al Pacino) falls in love with Daisy McConnahay (Nastassja Kinski), an aristocrat who deserts her class to fight alongside the rebels. Tom teaches his son Ned (Dexter Fletcher) everything he needs to learn, though the growing rebellion consumes most of his attention. Eventually, the Redcoats are mowed down in large battle scenes, as the ragtag Colonialists go to war.
characteristics
- Life Under Occupation
- Colonialism
- War
- Love
- Military-draft
- Trapping
- Trapper
- Son
- Illiteracy
- Enemy
- Boat
- Family
- Father
- Bad-guy
- Good-guy
