Dear America - Letters Home from Vietnam (1987)
Average Rating: 8.4/10
Reviews Counted: 14
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 0
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Average Rating: 8.1/10
Critic Reviews: 5
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Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam was first telecast April 3, 1988, over the HBO cable service. Based on the book of the same name, the program is devoted to poignant recitations of letters to and from American participants of the Vietnam war. The letters are heard over images culled from news footage, home movies and still photography, with contemporary music added to put things in the proper historical context. The 2-hour film, featuring readings from various well-known actors (see cast
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Willem Dafoe
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Michael J. Fox
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Robin Williams
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An intensely moving and disturbing experience.
Top CriticMr. Couturie, the director, and his associates have done a first-rate job.
What Couturie and his researchers have done is amazing.
The first film about Vietnam to come to us free of bias, free of rhetoric.
The missives get you where you live.
The structure of this Vietnam War docu is not particularly interesting, but the contents are.
Laudable though the intentions may be, there's something a little hollow about this all-star oral history of the Vietnam War.
Adds immeasurably to the growing stockpile of testaments about this tragic war.
When it comes to war, listen to the soldiers.
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Sad how this whole thing ended up...58,000+ KIA...many of the letter writers did not return home...