CAST

            MEL  GIBSON ( Benjamin  Martin )  is  not  only  of  the  world's  most  accomplished  actors, but also an  Oscar  winning  director  and  a  respected  film  maker.  In  the  course  of  his  career  as  an  actor , he  has  assayed a  variety  of  films , form  the  extreme  successful  " Leather  Weapon "  series  to  the  spirit  western  " Maverick "  to  the  psychological thriller  " Conspiracy Theory "  to  the  historical  epic  adventure  " Brave  Heart "  GIBSON  produce , directed  and  stared  in  "  Brave  Heart "  which  one  five  academy  awards  out  of  ten  nomination , including  best  picture  and  best  director. GIBSON ' s  company  icon  productions , with  GIBSON  created  with  Bruce  Davey , who  serves  as  it  president , developed  and  produce  " Brave  Heart , along with  many  other  movies , including  the  hit  actioner  " Pay  Back "  which  also  stared  GIBSON.  He  recently  completed  Wim  Wender ' s " the  million  dollar  hotel " which  icon  also  produce. GIBSON  follow  up  " The  Patriot " with  the  romantic  comedy , " What  Woman  Want "  for  director  Nancy  Mayer  which  paramount  will  release  in  the  winter  of  2000.

STORY

            Sixteen years after fighting in the French-Indian Wars, soldier and widower Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson( has settled into more pacifistic ways. He has built a home and farm, and is raising seven children alone. Bat contemplation of war upsets his well-balanced life and family as the governments of America’s Thirteen Colonies become increasingly unsettled by the British rule under which they live. The solidarity of Martin’s family and the unity of the colonies as a whole is put to the test by the outbreak of The American Revolution. As everything that Martin knows begins to fall apart around him, he is drawn into a conflict in which passionately resists taking part. A conflict which strains his relationship with son Gabriel (Heath Ledger) who is determined to join the Revolution despite Martin’s protests. Ultimately, Martin’s path brings him into direct combat with fabled British General Charles Cornwallis (Tom Wilkinson, and a cold-blooded British Colonel named William Tavington Jason lsuucs ) a pseudo-renegade whose elite “Green Dragoons” use ruthlessly and systematically purging the American countryside of civilians, and challenges to “The Crown.”