About this episode

Act Two of RECALL explores the struggles of boys at a military academy amidst the backdrop of external conflicts and personal challenges.

RECALL: Act Two In February 1961, the boys of Miami Military Academy are still marching, joking, fighting, shaving, bleeding, stealing, and pretending the world outside the gates is someone else’s problem. But the world is already inside the school. It is in the news from Cuba. It is in the old munitions bunkers by the bay. It is in the secrets the adults keep, the wounds they drink through, and the wars they keep handing down to children. Written by Academy Award nominee Bruce Davison, and once optioned and held by the great Carroll O’Connor with eyes on a Pacino lead,, RECALL is a funny, savage, deeply human coming-of-age drama about abandoned boys, broken fathers, old soldiers, Cuban exiles, secret weapons, and the machinery that turns fear into patriotism. Act Two begins as Stephen Lishinsky tries to survive the strange education of “A” Company. His head has been butchered. His pride has been beaten. His idea of honor has already taken a few direct hits. When he tries to run, Commander Patterson finds him at the bus stop and gives him the kind of broken advice only a broken soldier can give: if you are in a storm, sometimes the only move is to sit…

Topics covered

• coming-of-age
• military academy
• Cuban exiles
• identity
• father-son relationships
• war
• patriotism

Keywords

• RECALL
• Bruce Davison
• Miami Military Academy
• coming-of-age
• Cuba
• military
• identity
• patriotism
• war
• drama

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Miami Military Academy, Cuba

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