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James Carabatsos has 4 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2000s.
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A hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude.
Dir. Clint Eastwood · With Clint Eastwood, Marsha Mason, Everett McGill

Fact-based war drama about an American battalion of over 500 men which gets trapped behind enemy lines in the Argonne Forest in October 1918 France during the closing weeks of World War I.
Dir. Russell Mulcahy · With Rick Schroder, Phil McKee, Jamie Harris

The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill… up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of earth so named because it chews up soldiers like chopped meat. They are fighting for their country, their fellow soldiers and their lives. War is hell, but this is worse. Hamburger Hill tells it the way it was, the way it really was. It's a raw, gritty and totally unrelenting dramatic depiction of one of the fiercest battles of America's bloodiest war. This happened. Hamburger Hill - war at its worst, men at their best.
Dir. John Irvin · With Dylan McDermott, Steven Weber, Tim Quill
An unconventional undercover Chicago cop and his partner are recruited to commit the murder of a New Orleans criminal kingpin.
Dir. Richard Pearce · With Richard Gere, Kim Basinger, Jeroen Krabbé