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Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (1987)
Director: Bill Couturie
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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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