It was a great book, but it's always difficult to compress everything into a two hour movie. As expected, the movie features the following: brief introduction growing up as a poor immigrant family in Torrance, CA; wartime experience as a bombardier in the Pacific front; plane crash and subsequent survival of three men in a life raft for 45+ days; experiences in several Japanese POW camps with anticipated brutality, etc. The movie essentially end with the surrender of the Japanese and liberation of the prisoner camps. There is practically no coverage of Louie's life after his return to the US....spiritual or otherwise.
Still a good movie overall.
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