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In Country (1989)

111 min · Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film

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Directors

Norman Jewison

Cast

Bruce Willis, Emily Ann Lloyd, Joan Allen, Kevin Anderson, John Terry

The story

Recent high school graduate, 17-year-old Samantha Hughes lives with her Uncle Emmett, a Vietnam veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder, in Kentucky. Samantha's father, Dwayne, was killed in Vietnam after marrying her mother, Irene. Samantha finds some old photographs, medals and letters that belonged to her father and becomes obsessed with finding out more about him.

Catalogue themes and tags

1989, Loss of Father, Napalm, Relation, Shrapnel, Uncle, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Vietnam, Vietnamese, Vietnamveteran, War Veteran, War Victim, Warwidow, vietnam war, Family Drama, Period piece, Drama, War film, Coming of age, Romance Film

Genres

Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
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