Cast: Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, Luke Bracey, Teresa Palmer, Hugo Weaving, Rachel Griffiths, Vince Vaughn
Director: Mel Gibson
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Running Time: 138 minutes
Synopsis: Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield) as a young man in Lynchburg, Virginia, manages to shut out the harsh conditions of the real world and create one of his own choosing.
His family–his violent, alcoholic father Tom (Hugo Weaving), suffering from PTSD long before such a disease was ever recognized, his Fundamentalist mother, Bertha (Rachel Griffths), and his older brother Hal (Nathaniel Buzolic)– has a profound influence on his development.
Raised as a Seventh Day Adventist, Desmond's religious faith is profound, but it's a quiet, intimate faith. Desmond believes what he believes, and because of a couple of traumatic childhood events, he most strongly believes that 'Thou Shalt Not Kill." By chance, Desmond meets a young nurse, Dorothy Schutte (Teresa Pamler), and with his usual decisiveness, Desmond knows immediately that they're destined to be married.
As the U.S. enters World War II, Hal signs up to serve. Desmond finds himself in a complex dilemma " he wants to serve his country as he feels this is a just war, but he's compelled to serve in a way that doesn't compromise his values. He enlists to serve as a medic, but is assigned to the infantry.
Desmond is sent to train with the newly formed 307th Infantry, 77th Army Division, 1st Battalion, Company B " a motley crew led by the fierce Sergeant Howell (Vince Vaughn), and presided over by -alpha dog' Smitty Ryker (Luke Bracey).
That very lives of the men are threatened, in the eyes of Howell, his men, and the forcible Captain Glover (Sam Worthington), when it emerges that Desmond won't touch a weapon. He'll save lives, but he won't carry a knife, let alone a gun, and he won't work on the Sabbath. In his own words hee's not a conscientious objector – he voluntarily enlisted – he's a -conscientious co-operator'. Desmond is pressured physically and mentally, and is unsuccessfully court-martialed, but in 1944 finally wins the right to serve as the only American solider on the frontlines without a weapon. The living hell of the Battle Okinawa, and the jagged escarpment 400 feet high – Hacksaw Ridge – that leads to the battleground, i serves as a crucible for Doss' beliefs.
In this impossible situation, Desmond Doss performed acts of bravery that seem, by any normal measure, impossible. The army officially credited him with saving 75 men, in the most dire of circumstances. The men finally see he badly they misjudged his courage. On his return home, Desmond Doss earns the Congressional Medal of Honor, the first Conscientious Objector to ever do so.
Hacksaw Ridge
Release Date: November 3rd, 2016