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Guy X
''Guy X'' is a 2005 black comedy war film directed by Saul Metzstein, based on the novel '' No One Thinks Of Greenland'' by John Griesemer. The movie stars Jason Biggs, Natascha McElhone, Jeremy Northam, and Michael Ironside. Plot It is 1979, four years after the end of US involvement in the Vietnam War. US Army Corporal Rudy Spruance is mistakenly sent to Qangattarsa, a remote base in Greenland still attributed to the United States Army Air Forces (despite that service being converted to the United States Air Force in 1947), instead of his official posting in Hawaii. He soon finds out that his records have accidentally been replaced by the records of a Corporal Martin Pederson, who has been sent to Hawaii. The base is occupied by a co-ed battalion of US Army misfits, many of whom have been stationed there for over five years, doing little more than drink and sex their way through the overwhelming boredom. The only apparent military duty is to unload and reload a supply plane eve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saul Metzstein
Saul Metzstein (born 30 December 1970) is a Scottish film director. He won the British Academy Scotland New Talent Award for best director in 2002 for ''Late Night Shopping''. Metzstein is the son of Isi Metzstein, the renowned modernist architect, and Danielle Kahn. He was raised in Glasgow and studied architecture at Robinson College, Cambridge before taking minor production roles on Danny Boyle's ''Shallow Grave'' and ''Trainspotting'' and Gillies MacKinnon's ''Small Faces''. He came to prominence with the 2001 feature ''Late Night Shopping''. He subsequently directed documentaries on James Stewart and Gillespie, Kidd & Coia and an episode of ''Upstairs Downstairs'', as well as five episodes of the seventh series of ''Doctor Who ''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called the Doctor, an extraterrestrial being who appears to be human. The Doctor explores the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |