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Dominican Rep. In Country
- Original title
- In Country
- Year
- 1989
- Running time
- 106 min.
- Country
United States- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Bruce Willis
Emily Lloyd
Joan Allen
Kevin Anderson- Richard Hamilton
Judith Ivey
John Terry
Peggy Rea
Daniel Jenkins
Stephen Tobolowsky
Jim Beaver
Heidi Swedberg
Ken Jenkins- See all credits
- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama
- Synopsis
- Samantha Hughes, a teenaged Kentucky girl, never knew her father, who died in Vietnam before her birth. Samantha lives with her uncle Emmett, who also served in Vietnam. Emmett hangs around with Tom, Earl, and Pete, three other Vietnam vets who, like Emmett, all have problems of one kind or another that relate to their war experiences. Sam, as Samantha is known, becomes obsessed with finding out about her father and his experiences, but Emmett and the other vets don't want to talk about the war. Sam pushes everyone to attend a dance honoring the town's veterans, but Pete and Earl get into a fight, Emmett disappears, and Tom takes Sam home for an unsuccessful tryst. When Sam reads her father's diary, she begins to understand what his life and death meant, and she and Emmett, with a trip to the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial, come at least temporarily to terms with the war in their lives.
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- Awards
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1989: Golden Globes: Nominated Best Supporting Actor (Bruce Willis)
- Critics' reviews
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"In essence, In Country is a well-turned variation on the quest to find a father that shows up in the folk tales of almost any culture."
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"The scene at the memorial is one of the film's best, but director Jewison fails to find in it anything close to the level of emotional force that the same scene in Mason's book has"
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"This is no tribute to the war dead, but an unthinking betrayal of them -- they've been drafted again, this time to supply a climax to a second-rate tearjerker."
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"Sounds like your basic TV movie, sunk by noble intentions. But here well meaning translates into well done."
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