{"id":564,"date":"2011-07-19T13:34:46","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T18:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/?p=564"},"modified":"2011-07-19T13:34:46","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T18:34:46","slug":"a-marine-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/a-marine-story\/","title":{"rendered":"A Marine Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Find this film in a library near you\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/704436553\" target=\"_blank\"><em>A Marine Story.<\/em> DVD. Dir. Ned Farr. With Dreya Weber. Wolfe Video, 2011. 90 Minutes.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0pt none; float: left; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-566\" title=\"Cover of A Marine Story\" width=\"199\" height=\"263\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Marine-Story-e1311100107378.jpg\" \/>This film has won seventeen Festival Awards and it\u2019s easy to see why. <em>A Marine Story<\/em> is a well-written story that gets to the heart of the absurdity that keeps GLBT people from serving in the armed-forces. The movie begins by telling the audience that it is \u201cBased on true stories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dreya Weber plays Major Alexandra Everett, \u201cAlex,\u201d a mustang with a long and proud family history of serving our country. Put in the position to either earn an honorable discharge or be kicked out of the military under the \u201cDon\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell\u201d policy, Everett \u00a0returns home, where she is asked to mentor a young girl, Saffron Snow (played by Paris Pickard), who is on the wrong track and has been given a choice by a judge to either go to jail or join the military.<\/p>\n<p>Weber and Pickard put their whole hearts into the roles they play. Weber\u2019s character deals with issues of telling her friends and family why she left the Marines, falling in love and living openly for the first time, and playing the no-nonsense Drill Sergeant to Saffron. Saffron on the other hand is dealing with her own issues of growing up or else, leaving her druggie friends behind, and forging a new future for herself.<\/p>\n<p>This film is not rated. It does contain violence and may not be suitable for younger viewers. I would recommend <em>A Marine Story<\/em> for public and academic libraries.<\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><em>Reviewed by, <strong>Rachael Elrod<\/strong><\/em><em><br \/>\nReference and Instruction Librarian<\/em><em><br \/>\nThe Citadel<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Marine Story. DVD. Dir. Ned Farr. With Dreya Weber. Wolfe Video, 2011. 90 Minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,34,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}