In Country
Directed by Norman Jewison
Produced by Warner Bros. Pictures
A contemplative family drama about a young woman seeking to understand her absent father and the lingering wounds of Vietnam through her relationships with damaged veterans.
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. Samantha becomes obsessed with finding out about her father.
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