Miracle at St. Anna Page #2

Synopsis: Christmas, 1983. A New York postal clerk, a Buffalo Soldier in Italy in World War II, shoots a stranger. In his apartment, police find a valuable Italian marble head, missing since the war. Flashbacks tell the story of four Black soldiers who cross Tuscany's Serchio River, dodging German and friendly fire. With a shell-shocked boy in tow, they reach the village of Colognora. Orders via radio tell them to capture a German soldier for questioning about a counteroffensive. In the village, a beautiful woman, partisans that include a traitor and a local legend, the boy, and the story of a recent massacre connect to the postal worker's anguish forty years later. And the miracle?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Spike Lee
Production: Touchstone Pictures
  2 wins & 9 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.0
Metacritic:
37
Rotten Tomatoes:
33%
R
Year:
2008
160 min
$7,756,328
Website
317 Views


of a great marriage,

till your wife's heart gave out.

So why you stick a German Luger

in a guy's chest

three months short of your retirement?

Five million dollars.

That's how much that head would

draw on the black market.

What's it doin' buried there

on the bottom of your closet?

You're looking at 25 to life, pal.

Unless you can afford a lawyer,

you're gonna swallow happy pills

in this nuthouse the rest of your life.

But my story could help you.

And you need help, mac.

[woman, in Italian] Enrico, what kind

of art dealer specializes in Nazi art?

Because it's a lucrative business.

[in Italian] You Americans love work

more than you love 'love.'

[groans]

[in Italian] My love,

are you ignoring me?

[Keith] Pina, no.

Don't come over here.

[in Italian] Enrico, you said

you only needed ten minutes.

I gotta catch up. World might've

ended, I wouldn't know

'cause we've been going at it

two days. For crying out loud.

[in Italian] The world is still here.

You and I are still here.

Baby, not right now.

There you go. Excuse me.

OK?

Oh, God. Oh, that feels good.

[Pina giggling]

You're killing me, baby.

[in Italian] Yes, I love you to death.

[sighs]

I...

Hmm? What is it, Mr. Negron?

I... I know.

You know what?

I know who the sleeping man is!

- [Tim] You know what?

- I know who the sleeping man is.

[bells tolling]

[child yelling in Italian]

[man whimpering]

Mama. I want mama.

Kill me now! Kill me now,

I wanna go home to my mama!

I don't wanna be here.

I wanna go home!

Kill me now! Kill me now!

Oh, Jesus, I want my mama!

I don't wanna die! I don't wanna die!

Shh!

- Hector, shut him the f*** up.

- Yes, sir.

- I don't wanna die!

- Shut the f*** up!

[whispering] You wanna get us all

killed? That's your mama right now.

- This far enough?

- Keep movin'.

- You doin' fine, big fella.

- Help me, Lord. Help me, Lord.

Help me, Lord,

I'm prepared for Thee.

- Get off of me, sniper bait!

- Bishop, Train, switch flanks.

Bishop, take outer.

Train, take the inner.

- What's that?

- Take inner flank.

- What's that?

- Come on. Switch places, dummy.

Gimme some room.

Hey, Bishop.

Why we got to cross this river?

They sellin' hoecakes

and beer on the other side.

[laughs]

- My good luck charm gives me strength.

- Piece of sh*t you found

in the gutter in Florence?

Couldn't draw a bowl of turtle soup

from Uncle Amos with that.

Worth more than a bowl of soup!

Shh!

Train.

Hector, you speak Italian.

Cut-off head worth somethin'?

- Yo speaky Puerto Rican, man.

- Hey, muzzle that.

Keep moving.

[man speaks German]

[man on radio] Germany calling,

Germany calling.

Guten morgen, 92nd Division.

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