Taking Chance

Kevin Bacon gives a dignified performance as Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, who requests an assignment to escort the body of Chance Phelps, a young marine who was killed in Iraq in 2004, back to his family and final resting place in Wyoming. Tom Wopat, Ann Dowd, Gordon Clapp. Based on an article by Strobl (USMC Ret.), who cowrote the script.