Matthew Broderick heads a stellar cast in Academy Award winning screenwriter Horton Foote's 1918. While an influenza epidemic is sweeping America young men everywhere are succumbing to the patriotic fever fanned by the flames of World War One. In a small Texas town Horace Robedaux feels the pressure to enlist but he doesn't want to leave his young wife Elizabeth and their young child Jenny. However Elizabeth's younger brother is constantly talking about the war and their stern father now has plans to take care of his daughter and the child so Horace can fight for his... country. [show more]
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Film drama set in a small Texas town in 1918 at the height of US involvement in WWI. Young men are patriotically heeding the call to arms, German immigrants are suspected of being traitors or saboteurs, and Liberty Bonds are being sold to pay for the war effort. Horace Robedaux (William Converse-Roberts) doesn't want to leave his young family to go and fight, but his father-in-law has plans to take care of things in his absence. But the devastating flu pandemic sweeping the town (and the rest of the globe) may scupper everyone's plans...
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