Snafu
A 14-year-old boy lies about his age and enlists in the United State Marine Corps without his family's consent or knowledge. He is sent into battle in the Pacific war-zone, decorated, and spotted in a…
Snafu
A 14-year-old boy lies about his age and enlists in the United State Marine Corps without his family's consent or knowledge. He is sent into battle in the Pacific war-zone, decorated, and spotted in a newsreel by his family. The family asks the War Department to discharge him and send him home. A complicated period of adjustment follows for both the boy, who is no longer a boy even at age 15, and his family. (S/N/A/F/U, as the title is displayed, was a World War II military slang term standing for...Situation normal, all f(rigg)ed up. When the title was used on a 1984 film, the meaning, and all the correct words were used. ) —Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Snafu
Comedy,Romance,War
Film Details
A 14-year-old boy lies about his age and enlists in the United State Marine Corps without his family's consent or knowledge. He is sent into battle in the Pacific war-zone, decorated, and spotted in a newsreel by his family. The family asks the War Department to discharge him and send him home.
A complicated period of adjustment follows for both the boy, who is no longer a boy even at age 15, and his family. (S/N/A/F/U, as the title is displayed, was a World War II military slang term standing for...Situation normal, all f(rigg)ed up. When the title was used on a 1984 film, the meaning, and all the correct words were used.
) —Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>.