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In the Movie |
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Jed is a former student and lives in town. |
Jed is a Marine home for a weeks visit. |
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The invasion begins while the kids are in class. |
Jed and Matt are at home when they hear explosions.
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Jed arrives at school in his truck to pick up Matt and several others. |
Jed and Matt are together at home. Their father tells them to go and the pick up others along the way. |
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Jed and Matt's father is a regular citizen. |
He is a police officer.
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Daryl is white. |
He is black. |
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The invading forces are from the Soviet Union and Cuba. |
They are North Koreans.
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The Russians invaded and have been successful using regular combat. |
There is a device that the Koreans used to gain the advantage. |
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The story takes place in Calumet, Colorado. |
It is Spokane, Washington.
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Jed and Matt see their dad in a reeducation camp. He yells for them to avenge him. |
Their dad is taken to the woods where he uses a mega phone to tell them not to come out and to kill the Korean general. |
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After some time living in the woods, Jed, Matt and Robert go into town. They end up at Mr. Mason's house and he asks them to take his Grand daughters, Toni and Erica with them. They have never met the boys before. |
Erica is Matt's girlfriend and she is taken prisoner. They eventually free her.
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Matt watches as several men, including the fathers of Jed, Matt and Ardvark are lined up and executed while singing the national anthem. |
They are all watching as Jed and Matt's father is taken to try and convice the boys to give up. He is using the bullhorn and is shot in the head by the North Korean General. |
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The boys head to the woods to hide out. They stop at a sporting goods store first to get supplies. They camp out in the woods. |
They go to Jed and Matt's family cabin.
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This doesn't happen. |
Pete steals food from the group and leaves. He tells the North Koreans about the cabin and they come and burn it down. |
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A US plane is shot down and Erica finds the pilot sleeping. Lt. Col Andy Tanner is alone. |
Tanner is part of a three man group that discovers the Wolverines in the woods. They join forces.
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Daryl goes to town and swallows a tracking bug. After a raid by the russians is thwarted by the group they discover the tracking device. Jed wants to shoot Daryl but he can't. Robert comes up and guns him down with his AK-47. |
Daryl has a tracker embedded in his side. He has been wounded and sacrifices himself and stays behind in the woods to die alone. |
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After most of the Wolverines are killed, Matt and Jed go to town and kill several soldiers. Matt is shot and so is Jed. They sit on a park bench and a Cuban General sees them. He leaves them to die in eachothers arms. |
Jed is shot and killed and Matt eventually leads the remaining Wolverines in battle.
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Erica falls in love with Tanner. |
Erica is Matt's girlfriend. |
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Tanner is killed. |
He survives.
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Erica and Ardvark are the only remaining members of the Wolverines who survive. |
The fate of the wolverines is unknown. |
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Toni is shot and asks for a grenade to keep her warm. She puts it under her body with the pin pulled and when some soldiers discover her body they are all blown up. |
Toni survives.
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The Wolverines are the only resistance to the Russians shown. |
Other towns people join and fight along side. |
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Robert finds out that his father was killed by a old family friend when the boys goes to visit. |
Toni tells Robert about his family.
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The Wolverines fight the invaders but don't have any grand plans to foil the invasion. |
They help Tanner and the marines secure a device that helps the Koreans communicate with each other. |
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Robert becomes a blood thirsty killer with no conscience. |
At first he is afraid of killing but gets used to it. He isn't blood thirsty.
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Matt and Jed are allies and always have each other's backs. |
They are fighting most of the time because Matt is a hothead who only cares about himself. |
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Toni and Erica are sisters. |
They aren't sisters.
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Toni lures several Russians into a field where the Wolverines pop up and shoot them. |
She stops at a checkpoint in town and turns and runs. The Koreans chase her into an alley, where the Wolverines pop up. |
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Robert drinks blood after shooting the deer because Jed and Matt's dad made them do the same thing. |
He drinks the blood, but Jed and Matt tell him that they never drank the blood and laugh at him.
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The Cuban Major thinks the war is a lost cause and shows the brothers compassion. |
The Korean Lt. is bound to kill the brothers. He fights with Jed and is shot in the head by him. |