Film Forum

U.S., 1987
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Starring James Caan, Anjelica Huston, James Earl Jones, D.B. Sweeney
Based on Nicholas Proffitt’s novel
111 min. 35mm.

“Tells the stories of several relationships at this outpost far behind the front lines. The film introduces the kid (D. B. Sweeney), his immediate superior (James Caan) and the sergeant above him (James Earl Jones). And then there is the girl the kid would like to marry (Mary Stuart Masterson), and there is Caan’s new girlfriend (Anjelica Huston), who works for the Washington Post and considers the Vietnam War to be genocide.” – Roger Ebert

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Reviews

“Blood from Vietnam seeps insistently through Francis Coppola’s finely wrought and consummately well-played.”
– Sheila Benson, Los Angeles Times