Lone Survivor: Book vs. Movie
Peter Berg’s Lone Survivor (2013) adapts the 2007 memoir by Marcus Luttrell and Patrick Robinson. Four Navy SEALs on a reconnaissance mission in Afghanistan are exposed and cut off from help.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Marcus Luttrell, Patrick Robinson
- Year
- 2007
- Pages
- 392Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 14 hr 17 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Kevin T. Collins
Marcus Luttrell traces his path through Navy SEAL training to a reconnaissance mission in the mountains of Afghanistan. When the four-man team’s position is exposed, the mission becomes a fight to escape an attack with limited communications and little cover. Recounting the deaths of his teammates and his own struggle to survive, Luttrell describes the local villagers who shelter him despite the danger his presence brings.
- Director
- Peter Berg
- Writer
- Peter Berg
- Year
- 2013
- Runtime
- 2 hr 1 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch, Ben Foster
- Genre
- action, biographical, Drama, war
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Four Navy SEALs sent to observe a Taliban leader are discovered by goat herders in the Afghan mountains. Their decision to release the civilians leaves the team trying to withdraw before fighters reach them, but radio problems and the terrain complicate the escape. Cut off from support, Marcus Luttrell and his teammates fight their way down the mountainside as each injury makes staying together harder.
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