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Release Date:
20 November 1996 (USA) moreTagline:
There Is A Secret About To Explode.Plot:
Jeremy Collier is a Vietnam veteran who has returned home and is struggling to cope with the war experiences that haunt him... more | add synopsisAwards:
3 nominations moreUser Comments:
Rebel with a cause moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Emilio Estevez | ... | Jeremy Collier | |
| Kathy Bates | ... | Maurine Collier | |
| Martin Sheen | ... | Bob Collier | |
| Kimberly Williams-Paisley | ... | Karen Collier (as Kimberly Williams) | |
| Corin Nemec | ... | Donald | |
| Ann Hearn | ... | Prof. Tracey | |
| Carla Gugino | ... | Melissa | |
| Marcus H. Nelson | ... | Pvt. Poe | |
| Michael Wiseman | ... | Lieutenant | |
| Jena Kraus | ... | Coffee House Singer | |
| Chad Morgan | ... | Bus Station Clerk | |
| Penelope Allen | ... | Marjoree (as Penny Allen) | |
| Geoffrey Blake | ... | David | |
| Renée Estevez | ... | Brenda | |
| Tuan Tran | ... | Viet Cong |
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Rated R for a war-related shooting, an intense sequence of violent threat, and for language.Parents Guide:
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119 minCountry:
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EnglishColor:
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2.35 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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'Renee Estevez' is the younger sister of Emilio Estevez. She plays his cousin's wife in the film. moreQuotes:
Maurine Collier: I wish they could would make Thanksgiving on a Sunday. Then everyone could go to a service before they eat with their families. It'd be more religious, like it was with the Pilgrims.Jeremy Collier: What about the Indians?
Maurine Collier: Oh, Jeremy, there were no Indians at the first Thanksgiving.
Jeremy Collier: That's why they have it. The Indians saved the Pilgrims from starvin' to death, so the Pilgrims invited the Indians to share their first harvest feast.
Maurine Collier: Well, I'm sure the Indians were all Christians by then.
Jeremy Collier: Oh no, they weren't.
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The connection with James Dean?In a short plan ,we see Emilio Estevez toying with a teddy bear(remember the first scene of Ray's "rebel without a cause").Moreover,the main conflict is Estevez versus Sheen,father against son,as in "East of Eden".The soldier has come home,and nobody has been able to communicate with him, even his sister (a psychology student,what a derision).The mother,a crude matron (a superb Kathy Bates),gets bogged down in nougatine ,she 's not able to understand that her values (religion,family) have become a thing of the past,specially for someone like his son whose innocence was betrayed. The father ,an irresolute man ,under his wife's thumb,although he tries hard to play the macho,wanted to make up for the mediocrity of his life .So he saved his "honor" by forcing his son to do his duty.The scene in which Estevez's hatred for his father explodes is very intense.The actor-director gives a restrained performance,interiorized,as Lee Strasberg's students used to do,and his final burst of anger is increased tenfold so.