=G= Review of Thanks of a Grateful Nation

Thanks of a Grateful Nation (1998 TV Movie)

A commercial, soapy, protracted muddling of fact and fiction.

[6/10 · 12 June 2001]

"Thanks of a Grateful Nation" is a docudrama which attempts to tell the tale of Gulf War Syndrome. A Showtime commercial journeyman drama which muddles fact with fiction in the interest of entertainment, "Thanks..." runs too long at three hours, slogs around in woebegone soapy sentimentality with fictional subplots, is fraught with overtones of paranoia, and doesn't do justice to the interests and people it pretends to support. Those interested in GWS can find the real deal easily on the Inet. Pass on this one.