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The Americanization of Emily

In
this biting comedy scripted by the great Paddy Chayefsky, Charlie, a cynical
personal assistant to a scatterbrained WW II Admiral, is a self-proclaimed
coward opposed to the war. Yet when he and his go-getter roommate, are assigned
to film Navy troops landing in a surprise attack, suddenly the two are forced
to confront the ridiculousness of war firsthand, risking their lives all in the
name of public relations and patriotism. The
Americanization of Emily
was a vanguard anti-war film, poking fun at mindless
patriotism years before such films were fashionable or popularly accepted.
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