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Running Time
120
min
MPAA rating
PG-13
(for some sequences of war violence)
Release Date
Jan 20, 2012
Red Tails
An account of the Tuskegee Airmen, an all-black World War II fighter pilot squad. The squadron, which was sent to North Africa and Italy to escort white bomber pilots, consisted of some of the best fighter pilots in the Air Corps.
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If George Lucas is to be believed (and there’s no reason he shouldn’t be), “Red Tails’’ is a movie no Hollywood studio wants us to see. Lucas complains to Bryan Curtis in this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine that an action movie about the storied Tuskegee Airmen - black pilots who flew and fought with distinction in World War II - just wasn’t important to executives. He held a screening and none came. So he says he wound up paying for the entire movie himself. This is depressing news for several reasons.
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