Film

Captain America: The First Avenger 2011

Directed by Joe Johnston

  • Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
  • 124 min
  • PG-13

The one who never gives up awakens.

During World War II, Steve Rogers is a sickly man from Brooklyn who's transformed into super-soldier Captain America to aid in the war effort. Rogers must stop the Red Skull – Adolf Hitler's ruthless head of weaponry, and the leader of an organization that intends to use a mysterious device of untold powers for world domination.

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Classical in form, resolved, earnest and epic.

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  • resolvedopen-ended
  • earnestironic
  • intimateepic
  • effortlessdemanding

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