{"id":6383,"date":"2009-08-21T05:39:35","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T04:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=6383"},"modified":"2009-08-22T17:00:28","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T16:00:28","slug":"uk-cinema-releases-friday-21st-august-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2009\/08\/21\/uk-cinema-releases-friday-21st-august-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Cinema Releases: Friday 21st August 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NATIONAL RELEASES<\/strong><\/p>\n Inglourious Basterds<\/a><\/strong> (Universal): Quentin Tarantino<\/a>‘s long awaited World War II film done in the style of a spaghetti western<\/a>.\u00a0A fantasy of sorts (with significant chunks of history rewritten for effect) it involves a large ensemble cast of characters, who are slowly drawn into a tale of revenge.<\/p>\n There is a young Jewish woman (Melanie Laurent<\/a>) who escapes the slaughter of her family by a ‘Jew hunting’ Nazi (Christoph Waltz<\/a>); a group of Nazi-hunting commandos known as ‘The Basterds’ led by a Southern lieutenant (Brad Pitt<\/a>); a British agent (Michael Fassbender<\/a>) behind enemy lines; a Nazi war hero (Daniel Bruhl<\/a>) who has become a film star; an German actress double agent (Diane Kruger<\/a>) and the Nazi high command of Hitler (Martin Wuttke<\/a>) and Goebbels (Sylvester Groth<\/a>).<\/p>\n