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Taking Chance (2009)

Taking Chance (2009)

NR 77 minutes EN Drama , War , TV Movie
When one falls, another brings him home.
Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, a volunteer military escort accompanies the body of Lance Cpl. Chance Phelps to his hometown in Wyoming.
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