Occupation: Dreamland

Name: Occupation: Dreamland
Genre: War, Documentary
Released: September 23, 2005
Duration: 78 min
Rating: 66

2005

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Rumur Releasing | Release Date: September 23, 2005 | Unrated

Summary: This documentary is an unflinchingly candid portrait of a squad of American soldiers deployed in the doomed Iraq city of Falluja during the winter of 2004. (Rumur Releasing)

Director: Garrett Scott and Ian Olds

Genre(s): War, Documentary

Rating: Unrated

Runtime: 78 min

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Kenneth Turan

Has an intimate, personal quality. Rather than showboating for the camera, the soldiers get to a deeper level, conveying a surprisingly reflective and aware sensibility. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

Straightforward and immensely powerful, the movie offers a blunt assessment of the war from soldiers currently fighting it, and their perspective is not pretty. Read full review

Dallas Observer Robert Wilonsky

Scott and Olds' is an essential movie, and one of the year's very best. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Occupation: Dreamland presents a compelling study of composure and decency in the midst of overwhelming pointlessness. Read full review

Joshua Land

A fair-minded (but hardly apolitical) grunt's-eye view of the war in Iraq that trusts the audience to draw its own conclusions. Read full review

John DeFore

Their stories add up to an unflattering picture of how the U.S. chooses its soldiers. Read full review

Stephen Hunter

It's a movie with the exciting parts cut out. Read full review

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JeffS.

Sep 27, 2005

Every American should see this film.

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Oct 2, 2005

Those looking for a shoot'em-up testosterone fix will be sorely disappointed. Instead, this movie documents the day-to-day experience of the everyman soldier, the irony being that even though no one in the unit dies during the filming, the whole exercise of the occupation nonetheless Those looking for a shoot'em-up testosterone fix will be sorely disappointed. Instead, this movie documents the day-to-day experience of the everyman soldier, the irony being that even though no one in the unit dies during the filming, the whole exercise of the occupation nonetheless comes off just as pointless, misguided and ultimately tragic.… Expand

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AddyP.

Sep 26, 2005

This film is advertised as "The Falluja Film", but it was filmed almost two years ago and has little to do with the two battles for Falluja--in April and November 2004. Viewer beware. It's pretty tame stuff, but offers some insight into the lives of ordinary US troops.

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