The Four Feathers

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The Four Feathers (2002)

PG-13 09/20/2002 (US) War, Drama, Romance, Action, Adventure 2h 12m

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Freedom. Country. Honor. Passion. To save his best friend, one man must risk everything he loves.

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The story, set in 1885, follows a British officer (Heath Ledger) who resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends and fiancée send him four white feathers which symbolize cowardice. To redeem his honor he disguises himself as an Arab and secretly saves the lives of those who branded him a coward.

Shekhar Kapur

Director
A.E.W. Mason

Novel
Michael Schiffer

Screenplay
Hossein Amini

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Heath Ledger

Harry Faversham
Wes Bentley

Jack Durrance
Kate Hudson

Ethne Eustace
Djimon Hounsou

Abou Fatma
Alex Jennings

Colonel Hamilton
Michael Sheen

William Trench
Lucy Gordon

Isabelle
James Cosmo

Col. Sutch
Angela Douglas

Aunt Mary
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A review by Wuchak

6.0

Written by Wuchak on May 21, 2019

Brits fighting Sudanese rebels in 1884 with Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley and Kate Hudson

Based on the novel by A.E.W. Mason, a greenhorn British regiment in 1884 is commissioned to Egyptian-ruled Sudan to fight Mahdi rebels. A young officer, Harry (Heath Ledger), unexpectedly resigns and is shamed as a coward by his three best friends (e.g. Wes Bentley) and fiancée (Kate Hudson). After the negative fallout he goes to Sudan undercover to hopefully redeem his honor.

"The Four Feathers" (2002) is similar to Victorian-Brits-fighting-in-Africa flicks like “Zulu” (1964) and “Khartoum” (1966)... read the rest.

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