Teenager Samantha Hughes (Emily Lloyd) of Hopewell?? KY?? is pretty?? headstrong...and curious. About the father she never knew ? and about the war that took him away. The war nobody wants to remember. Bruce Willis plays a reclusive vet and Lloyd his niece in In Country?? which reveals a family??s struggle to heal the wounds of Vietnam. Directed by Norman Jewison (In the Heat of the Night)?? the film captures the horror of battle ? and the disillusionment of a soldier who thought war meant glory and discovered it also means both pain and fear. A poignant final scene ? the family??s emotional visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington?? D.C. ? caps a powerful movie that ??steers a straight and stirring passage to the heart?? (Peter Travers?? Rolling Stone).
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