In Country

In Country

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Release Date

9/15/1989

Runtime

120 mins

Genres

Overview

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.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$18,000,000

Revenue

$3,531,971

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A quietly moving portrait of a teenage girl searching for connection to a father she never knew, set against the slow-motion trauma of Vietnam veterans trying to make peace with their past in small-town Kentucky. It's a film about inherited pain and the work of understanding those we've lost.

Mood

ContemplativeMelancholicWistful

Themes

GriefFamilyIdentityWarComing of age

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

NaturalisticDocumentary-like

Structure

Linear

Heads up

Suicide and self-harm

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