Experience the summer that changed everything. The War is a powerful and emotional coming-of-age story set in Mississippi, USA, in 1970. The film tells the story of the Simmons family as they try to find their place and build their future amidst difficult times.
Kevin Costner gives a superb performance as a father who has returned from Vietnam, struggling with past traumas and trying to teach his children the meaning of peace and resistance. Young Elijah Wood shines as the boy who, along with his sister, gets caught in the middle of a fierce "war" between local children over a magnificent treehouse – a battle that grows into a larger symbol of justice and growing up.
