The bad news: We’ve been invaded. The good news: Kids are taking America back!
That’s the plot of “Red Dawn,” in which a small town in the Pacific Northwest, like the rest of the nation, is overrun by hostile foreign forces. Thank goodness for the local high school football team, the Wolverines, which sprints off the gridiron and heads to the hills to become a strike force of patriot fighters.
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