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Certificate 15

Cast Michelle Monaghan Gerard Butler Michael Shannon

Directors Marc Forster

Screenwriters Jason Keller

Running Time 127 minutes

Machine Gun Preacher
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Plot
The true story of Sam Childers (Butler), who turned his back on a violent past as a drug-dealing biker and found his true calling as a machine gun-wielding liberator of refugee children in Africa.

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