Miracle At St. Anna
(14A) Violence, Coarse Language
Synopsis:
War/Drama. Based on the book by James McBride. After helping an injured boy, four African-American soldiers (Derek Luke, Michael Ealy, Laz Alonso, Omar Benson Miller) find themselves separated from the United States Army and trapped in a small Italian village in WWII.

Content Elements:
Frequent use of the sexual expletive in a non-sexual context; frequent use of scatological slang, profanity, and vulgar expressions
Infrequent use of crude sexual language
Frequent use of ethno-cultural slurs
Frequent gory war violence — blood, detailed and grotesque wounds
Portrayal of corpses — blood and detailed wounds
Breast nudity in sexual and non-sexual contexts


Thematic Elements:
The human costs of war
Racism in the United States and abroad
Belief in a higher power


Classification Rationale:
Rated 14A for genre violence and coarse language.

Classification Date:
09/08/2008