Chance Phelps

...Bacon plays the lead role of LtCol Strobl. Taking Chance is directed by Ross Katz (producer of ''Lost in Translation ''). The story of Chance Phelps, as told by LtCol Strobl is also featured in the book, Faces of Freedom, published in 2007.

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...a lights-out, searing performance as Michael Strobl, a tightly wrapped lieutenant colonel who escorts the remains of Lance Cpl. Chance Phelps from the Dover Port Mortuary in Delaware to the home of the dead Marine's parents in Dubois, Wyo.

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...that his role of "escort" feels hollow and meaningless to him, a Korean War vet reprimands him. "Without a witness," he tells Strobl, Phelps would just "disappear." Attention must indeed be paid, as Arthur Miller wrote of quite a...

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...Turco, Tom Wopat, Danny Hoch US release date: 21 February 2009 I was wondering about Chance Phelps. I didn't know anything about him; not even what he looked like. I wondered about his family and what it would be like to meet them. I did...

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...to Dubois, Wyo., where Phelps's family lives. Military protocol requires that Strobl carry with him two flags, one for each of Phelps's divorced parents, played by Tom Wopat and Ann Dowd. Honoring the ritual of military escort,...

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...then on to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. It's there that Strobl receives instruction on accompanying Phelps' remains. Dover is also where Phelps' body is carefully Director Ross Katz, who co-wrote the film with Strobl, doesn't shy from...

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...the film stars Bacon as Marine Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, a career officer who volunteered to escort the body of Lance Cpl. Chance Phelps back to his family in Wyoming after the 19-year-old was killed in Iraq in April 2004. Then based in...

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...that Strobl wrote about journey with Phelps, the movie was developed with the strong support of Phelps' parents, John Phelps and Gretchen Mack. "Chance was an awesome Marine," Mack said, adding that the family gave HBO the green light...

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...Feb. 21 on HBO. The film is based on the first-person account of Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, who escorted the remains of Lance Cpl. Chance Phelps to the Marine's hometown in Dubois, Wyo. Bacon stars as Strobl, who served as the military...

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...Chance's mother, Gretchen, and her husband, Jeff Mach, gather on a hillside near Dubois, Wyo., where Phelps was laid to rest in 2004. Phelps was killed in Iraq when he was 19. Lance Cpl. Chance Phelps was killed in Iraq in April 2004. Map...

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