Based on real-life events, Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, a volunteer military escort officer, accompanies the body of 19-year-old Marine Chance Phelps back to his hometown of Dubois, Wyoming.Based on real-life events, Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, a volunteer military escort officer, accompanies the body of 19-year-old Marine Chance Phelps back to his hometown of Dubois, Wyoming.Based on real-life events, Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, a volunteer military escort officer, accompanies the body of 19-year-old Marine Chance Phelps back to his hometown of Dubois, Wyoming.
- Won 1 Primetime Emmy
- 8 wins & 29 nominations total
- Nate Strobl
- (as Nicholas Reese Art)
- Marine Driver
- (as GySgt Henry Coy)
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- TriviaWhen Lieutenant Colonel Strobl and Private First Class Phelps leave the hangar in Minneapolis there is a large Kalitta Air Charter airplane in the background. In 2007, Congress passed a law that military members were no longer to be returned to their families as cargo in the cargo hold of airliners as with Chance Phelps. The remains are now flown by Kalitta on their fleet of small jets.
- GoofsWhen military honors are rendered during the scene at the cemetery, there is no bugler playing Taps.
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LtCol Mike Strobl: [voiceover] Chance Phelps was wearing his St. Christopher medal when he was killed on Good Friday. Eight days later, I handed the medallion to his mother. I watched them carry him the final fifteen yards. I felt that as long as he was still moving, he was somehow still alive. When they put him down in his grave, he'd stopped moving. I didn't know Chance Phelps before he died. But today, I miss him.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 61st Primetime Emmy Awards (2009)
- SoundtracksTake The Highway
Written by Toy Caldwell
Performed by The Marshall Tucker Band
By Arrangement with Natural Energy Lab
I viewed 'Taking Chance' in that context. The political heat that infuses some of the other comments, is surprising to me. I didn't see the movie as making any political statement at all. In fact, to the extent that one can be inferred, it is mildly negative on the Iraqi war, raising the question of whether all this grief was worth it.
What it is about, is the respect that ordinary people have for grief and sacrifice. To that extent, it is profoundly moving,
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- Cuộc Chiến Cho Người Ở Lại
- Filming locations
- Bozeman, Montana, USA(Landing in "Billings, " number of scenes with the Bridger Mountains)
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- Runtime1 hour 17 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1