Fort McCoy

In the summer of 1944, Frank Stirn (Eric Stoltz, “Mask,” “Pulp Fiction”) moves with his wife (writer/co-director Kate Connor), children, and sister-in-law to Wisconsin’s Fort McCoy to become a barber for the American Army and the POWs held there. Embittered that he cannot fight overseas because of a heart murmur, Frank eventually takes a stand on home soil when a Nazi SS officer threatens his family. Based on the true story of Connor’s family, the film uses as fascinating background the little-known fact that 425,000 Nazi soldiers were brought to the U.S. as prisoners of war during World War II. Fort McCoy – a 60,000-acre training site that remains active to this day – served as one of the camps. Joe Leydon of Variety calls “Fort McCoy” “an old-fashioned, appealingly sentimental drama about home-front life during WWII.”