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The 'force' isn't really with George Lucas's 'Red Tails, the long-awaited film about the heroic Tuskegee Airmen, which has an odd sci-fi vibe. By Peter Rainer, Film critic / January 20, 2012 'Red Tails' star Cuba Gooding Jr. plays Major Emmanuel Stance

Wednesday was day two of a three-day event honoring the original Tuskegee Airmen, a group of African-American pilots who fought in World War II.

A new major motion picture from producer George Lucas tells the story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the famed all-black World War II fighter squadron. About 16 of its members now live in Chicago.

Ask Tuskegee Airman Roscoe C. Brown Jr. if he's happy with the film, and he says, “Does the sun come up?” It's been an evolutionary process, he says. Some of the airmen have been trying to get this kind of movie made for more than 30 years.

Red Tails highlights the story of the black fighter pilots who fought the Germans in the air during World War II, and racial discrimination on the ground at home.

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