The Postman Page #8

Synopsis: 2013,Post-Apocalyptic America. An unnamed wanderer retrieves a Postman's uniform and undelivered bag of mail. He decides to pose as a postman and deliver the mail to a nearby town, bluffing that the United States government has been reinstated and tricking the town into feeding him. However, he reluctantly becomes a symbol of hope to the townspeople there who begin to remember the world that once was and giving them the courage to stand up to a tyrannical warlord and his army.
Director(s): Kevin Costner
Production: Warner Home Video
  7 wins & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.0
Metacritic:
29
Rotten Tomatoes:
9%
R
Year:
1997
177 min
748 Views


l don't think

we ever really understood. . .

. . .what they meant to us

until they were gone.

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Eric Roth

Eric Roth (born March 22, 1945) is an American screenwriter. He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Forrest Gump (1994). He also co-wrote the screenplays for several Oscar-nominated films: The Insider (1999), Munich (2005), and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008). more…

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