In Country (1989)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Bruce Willis	...	Emmett Smith
	Emily Lloyd	...	Samantha Hughes
	Joan Allen	...	Irene
	Kevin Anderson	...	Lonnie
	John Terry	...	Tom
	Peggy Rea	...	Mamaw
	Judith Ivey	...	Anita
	Daniel Jenkins	...	Dwayne
	Stephen Tobolowsky	...	Pete
	Jim Beaver	...	Earl Smith
	Richard Hamilton	...	Grampaw
	Heidi Swedberg	...	Dawn
	Ken Jenkins	...	Jim Holly
	Jonathan Hogan	...	Larry
	Patricia Richardson	...	Cindy

Storyline

Samantha Hughes, a teenaged Kentucky girl, never knew her father, who died in Vietnam before her birth. Samantha lives with her uncle Emmett, who also served in Vietnam. Emmett hangs around with Tom, Earl, and Pete, three other Vietnam vets who, like Emmett, all have problems of one kind or another that relate to their war experiences. Sam, as Samantha is known, becomes obsessed with finding out about her father and his experiences, but Emmett and the other vets don't want to talk about the war. Sam pushes everyone to attend a dance honoring the town's veterans, but Pete and Earl get into a fight, Emmett disappears, and Tom takes Sam home for an unsuccessful tryst. When Sam reads her father's diary, she begins to understand what his life and death meant, and she and Emmett, with a trip to the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial, come at least temporarily to terms with the war in their lives. Written by Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>  

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