
On the 47th day, Japanese sailors find and capture Louie and Phil. On their 27th day adrift, they attract the attention of a Japanese fighter plane, which strafes and damages the rafts but fortunately misses them. Louie survives alongside two other crew members, Phil and Mac, floating on two inflatable rafts. One engine fails and the aircraft ultimately crashes in the ocean. Returning to his 1943 combat service, the film portrays Louie leaving with the rest of the surviving crew and several replacements on a search-and-rescue mission with a plane previously used for spare parts. Louie finishes 8th in the 1936 Summer Olympics and sets a record in the final lap for the 5,000-meter race. Louie begins to learn discipline and becomes a distance runner, earning the nickname "The Torrance Tornado". His brother Peter sees how fast Louie can run and decides to train him to be a runner. He is often picked on by others for his Italian ethnicity. In a flashback to his early youth as an Italian-American boy in Torrance, California, Louie misbehaves by stealing, drinking liquor and smoking. The pilot brings the aircraft to a stop at the end of the runway despite suffering an exploded tire. The film was followed by a sequel, Unbroken: Path to Redemption, in 2018.ĭuring an April 1943 bombing mission against the Japanese-held island of Nauru, Louis "Louie" Zamperini is flying as a bombardier of a United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber when his plane is damaged in combat and a number of the crew injured. It was a financial success, grossing $163 million worldwide. It received mixed reviews from critics, though praise was given to O'Connell's performance, Deakins' cinematography, sound, and Jolie's direction. The film was released in the United States on December 25, 2014. Unbroken had its world premiere in Sydney on November 17, 2014, followed by a London premiere at the Odeon Leicester Square on November 26, 2014.
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Zamperini survived in a raft for 47 days after his bomber crash-landed in the ocean during the Second World War, before being captured by the Japanese and being sent to a series of prisoner of war camps.įilming took place in Australia from October 2013 to February 2014. The film stars Jack O'Connell as American Olympian and Army officer Louis "Louie" Zamperini and Miyavi as Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) corporal Mutsuhiro Watanabe. It is based on the 2010 non-fiction book by Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption. Unbroken is a 2014 American war film produced and directed by Angelina Jolie and written by the Coen brothers, Richard LaGravenese, and William Nicholson.
