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Dino Dimuro Job as : Sound Effects Editor.Dan Hegeman Job as : Sound Effects Editor.Christopher Assells Job as : Sound Effects Editor.Harry Cohen Job as : Sound Effects Editor.Per Hallberg Job as : Supervising Sound Editor.Kevin O'Connell Job as : Sound Re-Recording Mixer.Russell Job as : Sound Re-Recording Mixer Lee Orloff Job as : Production Sound Mixer.Ozzy Inguanzo Job as : Art Department Coordinator.Andrew Cooper Job as : Still Photographer.Dionne McNeff Job as : Associate Producer.William Fay Job as : Executive Producer.Ute Emmerich Job as : Executive Producer.Roland Emmerich Job as : Executive Producer.Michael Dahan Job as : Associate Producer.Deborah Lynn Scott Job as : Costume Design.Caleb Deschanel Job as : Director of Photography.John Williams Job as : Original Music Composer.Thomas Nellen Job as : Makeup Department Head.Logan Lerman Character (William Martin).Peter Woodward Character (Charles O'Hara).Trevor Morgan Character (Nathan Martin).Skye McCole Bartusiak Character (Susan Martin).Gregory Smith Character (Thomas Martin).Tchky Karyo Character (Jean Villeneuve).Joely Richardson Character (Charlotte Selton).Heath Ledger Character (Gabriel Martin).Tagline: Some things are worth fighting for.Production_companies: Centropolis Entertainment.So The Patriot may be exciting, but it's definitely not an accurate history lesson. In fact, while one racist character showily learns the error of his ways after being saved by a Black solider, the film pretty much ignores historical race relations and slavery. Not only is villainous Colonel Tavington so reprehensible that he enjoys burning down a church filled with civilians, but the film in no way acknowledges that the character of Benjamin was inspired by a real-life colonist who hunted Native Americans and kept enslaved people. (The only heartfelt struggle for independence in the movie is teenage rebellion.) It's worth noting that producing/directing team Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich play fast and loose with historical facts here. It would have been better if that reason had something to do with liberty and democracy, but instead it's about revenge. So Benjamin has to find a reason to fight. There's a long Hollywood tradition of reluctant heroes being forced into violence, thus giving us the best of both worlds: a hero whose heart is in the right place but whose muscles and gun are, too. Fellow Aussie Heath Ledger is superb as Benjamin's oldest son Gabriel, at first impatient to join the fight and later a brave and mature soldier and an ardent suitor. He's utterly compelling in The Patriot, whether he's grimly dispatching an enemy, looking tenderly at a tiny daughter who won't speak to him, or agonizing over his past sins. The action sequences play well, and Gibson delivers, as always. It's not perfect, but this is a very enjoyable popcorn movie, sumptuously and excitingly filmed, and rousingly entertaining.

Characters kiss, and there are gentle sexual references in a scene depicting the colonial custom of "bundling bags" for courting couples.

Other than the violence, there's some use of words like "hell" and "damn," and characters drink wine and whiskey and use chewing tobacco. The atrocities committed in a past battle are vividly described. Dead Black people are shown hanging from a tree, and dozens of characters are burned to death while locked in a church. There's blood and gore throughout, as characters fight with muskets, rifles, swords, cannons, and hatchets. A solider is decapitated by a cannonball other soldiers lose their limbs to cannonballs. A character shoots himself in the head after his family is killed. While characters demonstrate courage and sacrifice, the movie is extremely, unrelentingly violent, with many graphic battle scenes. Parents need to know that The Patriot stars Mel Gibson as a South Carolina farmer who joins the cause of liberty in the Revolutionary War.