Advantages: Excellent acting, script, music and storyline Disadvantages: NONE WHATSOEVER
I've watched films about America's involvement in the Vietnam war before, but this isn't told in Vietnam, it's told in America. There's no blood and guts. The horrors are there for all to see, but they aren't shoved up in your face in terms of plastic blood and special effects.
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Jane Fonda plays the wife (Sally Hinde) of a newly promoted major in the American Marines, played by Bruce Dern (Bob Hinde). Sally's the model partner, who loves, ... ...champing at the bit to get out there and do his stuff, alongside his good friend 'Dink'. Now. Dink's girlfriend is Vi and she meets up with Sally when they're both waving their loved ones off to war, and the two strike up what seems to be an unlikely friendship at first.
Getting bored with sitting around all day, Sally takes a voluntary job at the local Vietnam Veteran's hospital. There she meets someone she went to school with, except this time, ...
Salgirl 24.02.2001
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