this movie is based on a true story, although it is set during the vietnam war, it focuses on 4 soldiers who go to great lengths to help a village, even risking their lives and careers, it has action (without all the blood and gore), life lessons about trust and love and doing what's right even when it is inconvenient, it has humor, danger, compassion and more, my children 16, 12 and 8 as well as my husband and I all love it