📺: Taking Chance Taking Chance is a 2009 HBO television film starring Kevin Bacon as Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, a Marine who volunteers to escort the body of 19-year-old Lance Corporal Chance Phelps, k*lled in Iraq, back to his family in Wyoming. The film, based on Strobl’s real-life journal, follows his journey as he witnesses the military’s respectful protocols for fallen soldiers and confronts his own feelings of guilt for avoiding combat, culminating in a deeply personal and emotional experie