- Content: “Gripping Historical Drama”
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PRESSURE is a superbly structured, acted and directed patriotic movie about the Allied D-Day invasion of Normandy. The invasion spelled the beginning of the end for Hitler’s National Socialist Germany. PRESSURE is a gripping, terrific, must-see historical drama. It has a strong moral, patriotic worldview with an inspiring church scene. However, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for older children and young teenagers because of strong violence, five strong profanities and six obscenities.
Content:
Very strong moral, patriotic worldview in historical story about General Eisenhower making the decision on the timing for the Normandy D-Day Invasion in World War II, with an uplifting scene in church where people sing a hymn and pray together, and the characters have united to oppose the National Socialist takeover of Europe by Hitler’s Germany;
Six obscenities, one strong profanity using the name of Jesus, and four GD profanities;
Some strong violence of images of dead soldiers on a beach with the surf tinged red, and strong scenes of the D-Day assault on the Normandy beaches on D-Day with many Allied soldiers getting hit by bullets and going down as they land in the beaches and run across them and a scene of Allied soldiers finally taking a machine gun nest with an American soldier leaping into the nest and firing his weapon into the nest at the end, and images of a violent thunderstorm on land and sea, and scenes where people get angry with other people;
No sex;
No nudity;
Brief alcohol use;
No smoking or drugs; and,
Man accuses another man of cherry picking examples to support his case.
More Detail:
The movie opens with Britain’s top meteorologist, James Stagg, leaving his pregnant wife to join Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower’s staff as chief meteorological officer. Although Ike already has a meteorologist, Colonel Irving Krick, who’s been with him throughout the Allied African campaign, Stagg has special experience with the weather around England and France, where the D-Day Invasion has been set for Monday June 5, 1944.
However, when Stagg arrives at the weather office for the invasion, he finds that Krick has been totally reliant on the history of weather patterns surrounding Normandy and around the English Channel in the last four decades. Stagg believes that a weatherman needs to look at the weather conditions just before and during June 5. Of course, Krick vehemently disagrees.
It doesn’t help Stagg’s case that his personality rubs everyone the wrong way, whereas Krick has an outgoing, ingratiating, and friendly personality. Stagg predicts that two fast-approaching storms suggest that the invasion can’t occur until June 18, while, based on his analysis of weather patterns in previous years, Krick believes a high pressure front forming will push the storms out of the way and the skies will be completely clear on June 5. Stagg’s case is further hurt by the fact that the weather on Saturday and Sunday has been perfectly clear and sunny.
The problem is, if they wait until June 18, the Allied forces will lose any element of surprise, and the Allies could lose the war. The ships, the planes and the men are all lined up and ready to go on June 5. It’s now or never.
PRESSURE is a superbly structured, acted and directed patriotic movie about the Allied D-Day invasion of Normandy. The invasion spelled the beginning of the end for Hitler’s National Socialist Germany. PRESSURE is a gripping, terrific, must-see historical drama. It has a strong moral, patriotic worldview with an inspiring church scene.
Sadly, though, PRESSURE has five strong profanities and some obscenities, plus some strong violence. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for older children and young teenagers.
