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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Lions Gate
EAN: 0012236207405
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Lions Gate
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 23, 2007
Running Time: 102 minutes
Sales Rank: 20310
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: March 10, 1989
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Description:
A troubled Vietnam vet pays a visit to an old war buddy. Finding his buddy in a depressed drunken state, with only his sister for company, the vet works toward freeing the buddy from his past and provides the sister with the tender love she has never known.
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Based on the off-Broadway play Strange Snow, this chamber drama is essentially a three-hander between Robert De Niro, Kathy Baker, and Ed Harris. Harris is a Vietnam vet suffering the recurring effects of posttraumatic stress disorder. De Niro is an old army buddy who looks him up and helps him come to terms with the ugly memories he has of their days together in Vietnam and of a pal who didn't make it out alive. Baker plays Harris's sister, a schoolteacher and wallflower who blossoms under the attention of the rough-hewn De Niro. Harris and De Niro clash in a cathartic confrontation, but not before De Niro and Baker play an incredibly erotic and understated love scene that serves as the film's emotional core. --Marshall Fine
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Rating:  -
I do admit that I'm a Kathy Baker fan so i'm sure i'll have a review soon about Picket Fences Season One. I first saw her in "Clean and Sober" with Michael Keaton, then saw this film, and then was thrilled to learn she would be in "Picket Fences." That being said, I think the most powerful perfomance in this movie was by Ed Harris - I don't know why I never made the connection, maybe I wasnt paying attention, but I never realized that it was Ed Harris playing that role - this film has three ... Read More
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Being a child of the 1980s and having a father who served in the military during the 1960s, a very large portion of the movies I watched with my father concerned the Vietnam War. Some of these films such as Hamburger Hill (1987), Platoon (1986), and Full Metal Jacket (1987) left quite an impression on me and led to me and my neighborhood friends to play "Vietnam War" in our backyards. As time passed though, and with the death of my family's first VCR, I watched fewer films based on the Vietnam War ... Read More
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If it wasn't for the fact that typically I reserve five stars for absolute masterpieces--like Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai"--I definitely would have given this film that rating. At least four and a half. This virtually unknown film, directed by David Jones, is a tour de force for actors DeNiro, Ed Harris, and Kathy Baker. Each of them is so good it's impossible to find a single line--even a single word--that's out of place, or a misstep, or just plain wrong.
The script is by Stephen Metcalfe ... Read More
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My position may be a lit biased because I am a big De Niro fan, but I really enjoyed this movie. The story line following war vets from Vietnam was a good fit for many of the charactors. You get the true feeling of brotherhood but at the same time you feel that same brotherhood being betrayed. You can't help but think of someone that you know and their point of view on the whole story. So to anyone who is wondering if they should purchse the film or not I say "if you feel you want to watch a movie ... Read More
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JACKNIFE is a fine adaptation of Stephen Metcalfe's play 'Strange Snow' (the screenplay was also written by Metcalfe), sensitively directed by
David Hugh Jones, that explores the too frequently forgotten effect of battle on veterans damaged permanently by the heinous cruelties of war. It is especially poignant to return to this 1989 film now as we watch the soldiers returning from the war in Iraq and the raw treatment they are receiving in our Veterans' Hospitals.
Three friends went ... Read More
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