For Greater Glory (2012)

Release Date: June 1st, 2012

Director: Dean Wright

Writers: Michael Love

Actors: Andy Garcia, Bruce Greenwood, Bruce McGill, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Eduardo Verastegui, Eva Longoria, Nestor Carbonell, Oscar Isaac, Peter O'Toole, Ruben Blades, Santiago Cabrera

Genre: Drama, History, War

MPAA Rating: Not available

Official site: www.cristiadafilm.com

Studio: ARC Entertainment

A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country.
What price would you pay for freedom? In “For Greater Glory,” an impassioned group of men and women each make the decision to risk it all for family, faith and the very future of their country, as General Gorostieta (Andy Garcia), the retired military man who at first thinks he has nothing personal at stake as he and his wife (Eva Longoria) watch Mexico fall into a violent civil war. Yet the man who hesitates in joining the cause will soon become the resistance’s most inspiring and self-sacrificing leader, as he begins to see the cost of religious persecution on his countrymen… and transforms a rag-tag band of rebels into a heroic force to be reckoned with. The General faces impossible odds against a powerful and ruthless government. Yet it’s those he meets on the journey – youthful idealists, feisty renegades and, most of all, one remarkable teenager named Jose – who, reveal to him how courage and belief are forged even when justice seems lost.