Drescher: Angelina Jolie's 'Unbroken' misses subject's deep faith

Unbroken, the film, begins with the trouble-making son of Italian immigrants, chronicles his unlikely and meteoric rise to fame as an Olympian, displays some of the unspeakable horrors of war, and highlights the resilience and 

Clarence Douglas (Stephen J. Douglas) and Harry Brooks (Spencer Lofranco) man their guns aboard a B-24 bomber in "Unbroken," a movie that tells the story of Louis Zamperini, a former Olympic athlete who was captured and imprisoned by the Japanese 

This is the relentless, unflagging — and yet, never repetitive — pace of “Unbroken,” a moving, inspirational, slightly safe and comfortably old-fashioned drama from Angelina Jolie. Based on the Laura Hillenbrand best-seller (with a screenplay assist

I need to start by acknowledging that Louie Zamperini—the man whose story is told in Laura Hillenbrand's runaway bestselling biography Unbroken and now in the film by the same name—is incredibly inspiring: first, for his 

“Unbroken,” based on a terrific book by Laura Hillenbrand, starts out well and then becomes repetitive. Good acting, brutal, full of action and some heart but editing and a story that widened out would have helped. Still, it's worth seeing on the big