In Country (Full Frame)

VHS, R, 120 minutes, WARNER

At 17, Samantha Hughes of Hopewell, Kentucky,is pretty, energetic, headstrong...and curious. Curious about the father she never knew. And curious about the war that took him away- the war nobody wants to remember. Bruce Willis ("Die Hard," "Moonlighting") is a reclusive vet and Emily Lloyd ("Cookie," "Wish You Were Here") is his niece Samantha in "In Country," the story of a family's struggle to heal the wounds of Vietnam. Like "Born on the Fourth of July," "In Country" captures both the horror of battle- and the disillusionment of a young soldier who thought war meant glory. And discovers it means both pain and fear. Norman Jewison ("Moonstruck," "A Soldier's Story," "In the Heat of the Night") directs his heartfelt and powerful movie highlighted by one of the most poignant final scenes ever filmed- the family's emotionally stirring, almost wordless visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC. "In Country" is the term American GIs used for their time in Vietnam," explains award-winning author Bobbie Ann Mason, whose novel was the basis for the film. "In a larger sense, "In Country" means America, for the war has come back home. The Vietnam War is every American's story.".