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Act of Valor is a american film of genre War directed by Scott Waugh released in USA on 24 february 2012 with Roselyn Sánchez
Act of Valor (2012)
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Add to a movie listAct of Valor is a 2012 American war film directed by Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh, and written by Kurt Johnstad. It stars Alex Veadov, Roselyn Sánchez, Nestor Serrano, Emilio Rivera, and active duty U.S. Navy SEALs and U.S. Navy Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen. The film was released by Relativity Media on February 24, 2012.
The film was nominated at the 70th Golden Globe Awards for Best Original Song.
Synopsis
In the Philippines, a terrorist kills the U.S. ambassador, his son, and dozens of children at an elementary school, using a vehicle-borne IED disguised as an ice cream truck. The mastermind, a Chechen terrorist named Abu Shabal (Jason Cottle), escapes to a training camp in Indonesia. Elsewhere in Costa Rica, two CIA operatives, Walter Ross (Nestor Serrano) and Lisa Morales (Roselyn Sánchez) meet to consolidate intelligence about their target, a drug smuggler named Mikhail "Christo" Troykovich. Christo's men kill Ross and capture Morales, who is imprisoned in a jungle compound and tortured.Actors
Roselyn Sánchez
(Lisa Morales)
Nestor Serrano
(Walter Ross)
Alex Veadov
(Christo)
Emilio Rivera
(Sanchez)
Gonzalo Menendez
(Commander Pedros)
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