Gardens of Stone (1987)
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Cast
as Pete Deveber
as Lt. Webber
as Sgt. Maj. 'Goody' Nelson
as Sgt. Clell Hazard
as Capt. Homer Thomas
as Rachel
as Samantha Davis
as Jackie Willow
as Col. Feld
as Pvt. Albert Wildman
as Cpl. Flanagan
as Betty Rae
as Don Brubaker
as Mrs. Feld
as First Sgt. `Slasher' Williams
as Lt. Colonel
as Soldier
as Wedding Friend
as Col. Godwin
as Editor
as Lt. Webber
as Soldier
as Blue Lieutenant
as Daughter
as Soldier
as Private
as Chaplain
as Navy Captain
as Lt. Atkins
as Lt. Horton
as ANC Driver
as General
as Soldier
Critic Reviews for Gardens of Stone
All Critics (14) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (8) | DVD (2)
Seems to take its name not so much from the Arlington Memorial Cemetery, where much of the action takes place, but from the stiffness of the characters it portrays.
There's a pervasive and worrying sense of the central issues being gently but undeniably fudged.
The most important missing ingredient is Mr. Coppola.
Every moment is right, and yet the film as a whole is incomplete.
A handsome but fragmentary film that can't decide which story to tell.
Francis Coppola's 1987 Vietnam meditation was his best film in a while, though it's still something less than satisfying.
Audience Reviews for Gardens of Stone
Period piece that presents the POV of the impact of the Vietnam War stateside; both civilian and military perspectives and how they most often clashed. Great performances by all the main players, this is a movie very worthy of you viewing. One of JEJ's best performances
Francis Ford Coppola directs this rather humdrum drama about the Old Guard (charged with burying many soldiers in military funerals) during the Vietnam War. James Caan and James Earl Jones are good...but D.B. Sweeney is kind of weak here. The script is a little too weak, with forced and tired views on the Vietnam War being continuously drudged out with little impact. I didn't care about the characters or most of what is going on...it is too dull and drab. You have to wonder why Coppola would return to the subject of Vietnam (in any small capacity) after he put his all into "Apocalypse Now". I would say this is one of Coppola's weakest efforts.
It's taken 20 (plus) years but Coppola's much maligned take on the effects of an unpopular war seems to have found it's relevance.
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