Based on a true story, War Eagle, Arkansas has won more than 20 Best Picture and Best Actor awards in film festivals throughout the country with its inspiring story of a high school baseball star who must choose between pursuing a college sports career and staying near family and friends in his struggling rural Ozark mountains community. Enoch Cass (LUKE GRIMES) wishes to hold on to loved-ones, including lifelong best friend Samuel Macon (DAN McCABE) whom he affectionately calls Wheels; because of his wheelchair. The two share an enduring spirit strengthened by Samuel's Cerebral Palsy and Enoch's debilitating stutter, both of which have kept them in need of each other for much of their lives. The film is endorsed by United Cerebral Palsy and Easter Seals. ... ... Expanded Synopsis: War Eagle, Arkansas is an emotionally and driven drama about a young man s choice of whether to leave his family and friends for a career in baseball or stay and redeem his struggling community. The story takes place over a few pivotal weeks in the summer after Enoch Cass s senior year, and is set against the backdrop of Arkansas beautiful Ozark Mountains. Enoch Cass (played by Luke Grimes) has two gifts; the first is baseball, and the second is the innate goodness he possesses as he holds his family, members of his community, and most of all, his friendship with Samuel Wheels Macon, together. However, Enoch s Achilles heel is the fact that he has a debilitating stutter and can rarely manage a complete sentence. Wheels (played by Dan McCabe) is Enoch s best friend, and has cerebral palsy. He has been confined to a wheelchair since early childhood, which is how long these two have been inseparable. Wheels spirit knows no bounds, and combined with Enoch s inability to articulate, the two have relied on one another to make themselves one completely functional human being...though without each other, they are nothing. However, the story finds these two at the crossroads of childhood and independence, the moment where Enoch has to decide if he will put away the things of his youth to pursue his own interests, or remain shackled to his hometown and its people. Enoch s domineering grandfather, Eugene Pop Cass (played by Brian Dennehy) wants nothing more than for his grandson to get a baseball scholarship to a major school and get out of the town he feels he himself was sentenced to forty years before after being forced to abandon his own minor league career. Enoch s mother, Belle Cass (played by Mare Winningham) often comes into conflict with Pop over these issues, while Enoch also seeks counsel from Jack (played by James MacDaniel), an older African American man he works with, as well as Wheels mother, Jessie (played by Mary Kay Place). After Enoch performs well in the All Star game, he is quickly seduced by the new found attention he s being given both by interested colleges and Abby (played by Misti Traya), a girl Enoch has had a crush on for some time. As all this happens, Enoch s friendship with Wheels becomes more and more distant and finally begins to dissolve. As the film reaches its dramatic climax, Enoch must choose between his best friend, a baseball career, his girlfriend, and the inherent love he feels for his community. Funny and moving War Eagle, Arkansas is just one big love song to everything worth loving, particularly the hard and unlovable things. War Eagle, Arkansas poses important questions that face all young people in rural America. The answers we find could touch us all.
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- Sales Rank: #369388 in DVD
- Brand: Hannover House
- Released on: 2010-04-06
- Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
- Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Formats: Blu-ray, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen
- Original language:
English - Dimensions: .20 pounds
- Running time: 93 minutes
Coming of age in an Ozark town. Enoch is a high school senior: he stutters, has one friend, Wheels, a kid with CP who's in a wheelchair, and thinks about college in
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