Fighting for Life March 21, 2008

FIGHTING FOR LIFE
Powerful documentary portrait of American military medicine from Terry Sanders
Opens March 21, 2008 at Laemmle’s Sunset 5, Los Angeles

Laemmle’s Sunset 5- 8000 Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood. 323-848-3500
Director Terry Sanders in person Select shows on Friday, March 21, 2008 and Saturday, March 22, 2008,
Showtimes: 12:30pm, 2:40pm, 5:00pm, 7:20pm, 9:40pm
Tickets are $10.00 and available at theatre box office starting 3/18/08
Advance ticket purchase at: www.laemmle.com and at the theatre box office.

Official Film website & trailer: http://www.fightingforlifethemovie.com

FIGHTING FOR LIFE, a film combining elements of MASH and Top Gun, interweaves stories of military doctors, nurses and medics, working with skill, compassion and dedication amidst the vortex of the Iraq War, wounded soldiers and marines reacting with courage, dignity and determination to survive and to heal, and students at Uniformed Services University, the “West Point” of military medicine, on their journey toward becoming career military physicians. The film also follows 21 year-old Army Specialist Crystal Davis, from Iraq to Germany to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington DC, as she fights to recover and “bounce back” from the loss of a leg.

“Shot in battlefield hospitals in Iraq and rehab centers in the United States, Fighting for Life takes an unflinching look at the physical sacrifices of soldiers and marines.”
– New York Times

“This is Americans at their best…marvelously uplifting” – The MacNeil/Lehrer Report

“Fighting for Life is briskly paced, and there's often a palpable, appropriate sense of disorientation parlayed through the roaming p.o.v.”– Variety

Official Website: http://www.fightingforlifethemovie.com