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Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (1987)
Director: Bill Couturie
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
This beautifully crafted documentary brings home the tragedy of the Vietnam war in ways well out of the reach of feature films. Nothing is re-enacted, and the interweaving of newsreel and amateur footage puts you right there next to the bloody stumps and the booby-traps in the elephant grass. The letters home - read by Robert De Niro, Martin Sheen, Sean Penn, Tom Berenger, Robin Williams among others - range from family ordinary to the staring horror of Joseph Conrad's Kurtz. Tears and fear are a constant refrain. An intensely moving and disturbing experience.Author: BC
Cast & crew
Director: Bill Couturie
Producer: Bill Couterie, Thomas Bird
Cast: Tom Berenger, Ellen Burstyn, Willem Defore, Robert De Niro, Brian Dennehy, Matt Dillon, Robert Downey Jr, Michael J Fox, John Heard, Harvey Keitel, Sean Penn, Randy Quaid, Martin Sheen, Kathleen Turner, Robin Williams full cast
Genre(s): Documentaries
Duration: 87 mins
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