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Average Rating: 6.4/10
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Jeremy Collier (Emilio Estevez) is the army veteran who returns home after his harrowing experiences in battle. His father Bob (Martin Sheen) is the emotionally detached parent who insists Jeremy put his unpleasant memories behind him and get on with his life. His mother (Kathy Bates) is the unusually cheerful woman who pretends nothing is wrong. The troubled Jeremy finds almost as much fighting at home as he did in the military in this powerful drama of a young veteran's adjustment to civilian
Nov 22, 1996 Wide
Sep 3, 2002
All Critics (17) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (9) | Rotten (6) | DVD (2)
The film is so beautifully acted that you barely notice the staginess of some of the speeches.
A confident, straight-ahead no-nonsense movie that delivers its message relentlessly with maximum impact.
Full of little acting moments that feel like ACK-ting moments.
Bates is excellent, and Sheen's performance marks a high point in the actor's wayward career.
It's never anything more than middlebrow, obvious and quite laboured -- and, for good and ill, very earnest.
In one dramatic moment, an upset Bates yells at and slaps Estevez, and suddenly Sheen brings up the subject of stolen peanut brittle.
Excellent performances from the Sheen clan
Shows the explosions generated by the Vietnam War after soldiers left the battlefields.
It's undoubtedly one of the most riveting portrayals of Vietnam's impact on the American family since Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter.
kinda uncomfortable but i couldn't look away. some Great scenes with Emilio and Martin. each family character has real feelings. moving. almost (but somehow not) too dramatic ending
June 2, 2006
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A Great Peace of Drama / Dark Comedy Mixture it shows at the one Hand who sick & twisted are Upper Middle Class Familys under the fitted Cloak of Wealth and Peace, that many Patriarchs like Fascist Dictators and how egoistic a Man can be he send his own Son into Hell just to not blame himself and when it gives
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