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Release Date:
20 November 1996 (USA)
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Tagline:
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...
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Thanksgiving
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Vietnam
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Veteran
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Thanksgiving Day
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1970s
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Awards:
3 nominations
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What a surprise!
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Cast
(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.
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119 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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In one scene, the camera slowly heads towards the dinner table. Bob (Martin Sheen) is facing the camera on the far end of the table, Maureen (Kathy Bates) is to his right, and Jeremy (Emilio Estevez) is to his left. This position of the family and the shot is lifted from another family drama film Ordinary People (1980).
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Quotes:
Jeremy Collier:
I'm not having dinner
Bob Collier: And why not?
Jeremy Collier: I had a big breakfast.
Bob Collier: Jeremy, I'm not joking around out here!
Jeremy Collier: I'm not laughin' around in here!
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Bob Collier: And why not?
Jeremy Collier: I had a big breakfast.
Bob Collier: Jeremy, I'm not joking around out here!
Jeremy Collier: I'm not laughin' around in here!
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Movie Connections:
References "Have Gun - Will Travel" (1957)
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Me and Bobby McGee
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Emilio Estevez actually directed a good movie--who woulda thought? I sat through two previous films Estevez directed--"Wisdom" (with then girlfriend Demi Moore) and "Men at Work" (with brother Charlie Sheen). They are lousy films---badly acted, directed, stupid and offensive. Estevez is a good actor but lousy as a director. I turned this on in pure curiousity--it has a great cast and I had nothing else to do. Damned if it didn't pull me in.
It concerns Estevez coming home from Vietnam permanently scarred by what happened over there. His parents (Kathy Bates, Martin Sheen) and sister (Kimberly Williams) try to reach him but can't. Something in Vietnam has affected him deeply...and he's about to explode...
A bit overlong but still very good. A lot of the material is familar but the cast is so good that they make it seem new. Estevez is good, Sheen is terrific (and Estevezs' real life father), Williams is touching and Bates is just extraordinary--trying to hold the family together. It all leads up to a powerful ending which REALLY surprised me.
Well worth catching.