Description: Three friends from a Pennsylvania steel town are changed forever by their experiences in Vietnam. Multi-Academy Award winner, including Best Picture!
This excruciatingly violent, three-hour Viet Nam saga demolishes the moral and ideological cliches of an era: it shoves the audience into hell and leaves it stranded without a map. ,TIME Magazine
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02/20/2008 @ 12:00 AM
The film is ambitious and it succeeds on a number of levels and it proves that Cimino is an important director who deserves to be watched carefully. Charles Schreger,Variety
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12/13/2006 @ 12:00 AM
A disgusting account of what the evil Vietnamese did to poor, innocent Americans stands at the center of this Oscar-laden weepie about macho buddies from a small industrial town. Jonathan Rosenbaum,Chicago Reader
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10/23/2004 @ 12:00 AM
It is a heartbreakingly effective fictional machine that evokes the agony of the Vietnam time. Roger Ebert,Chicago Sun-Times