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In Country is a american film of genre Drama directed by Norman Jewison released in USA on 15 september 1989 with Bruce Willis
In Country (1989)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 15 september 1989
Length 1h48
Directed by Norman Jewison
OriginUSA
Themes Political films
Rating58%
In Country is a 1989 American drama film produced and directed by Norman Jewison, starring Bruce Willis and Emily Lloyd. The screenplay by Frank Pierson and Cynthia Cidre was based on the novel by Bobbie Ann Mason. The original music score was composed by James Horner. Willis earned a best supporting actor Golden Globe nomination for his role.
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Recent high school graduate Samantha Hughes, 17, lives in fictional Hopewell, Kentucky with her uncle Emmett Smith, a laid-back Vietnam veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder. Samantha's father, Dwayne, was killed in Vietnam at 21 after marrying and impregnating Samantha's mother, Irene. Samantha finds some old photographs, medals, and letters of her father, and becomes obsessed with finding out more about him.Actors
Bruce Willis
(Emmett Smith)
Emily Lloyd
(Samantha Hughes)
Joan Allen
(Irene)
John Terry
(Tom)
Kevin Anderson
(Lonnie)
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