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Heaven and Earth (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Arabic ( Subtitles )
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
136 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen

Special Features:
Commentary
Deleted Scenes
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1993 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Oliver Stone

Written By:
Le Ly Hayslip (book) and
Jay Wurts (book) ...

Actors:
Tommy Lee Jones ..... Major Steve Butler
Robert John Burke ..... Paul, GI
Debbie Reynolds ..... Eugenia
Haing S. Ngor ..... Papa
Bussaro Sanruck ..... Le Ly, Age 5
Supak Pititam ..... Buddhist Monk
Joan Chen ..... Mama
Thuan K. Nguyen ..... Uncle Luc
Hiep Thi Le ..... Le Ly
Lan Nguyen Calderon ..... Ba
Thuan Le ..... Kim
Dustin Nguyen ..... Sau
Mai Le Ho ..... Hai
Vinh Dang ..... Bon
Khiem Thai ..... Brother-in-Law
Liem Whatley ..... Viet Cong Captain
Michelle Vynh Le ..... Viet Cong Cadre Woman
Tuan Tran ..... Rapist

Synopsis:

With Heaven and Earth -- cobbled together from two autobiographical reminiscences (When Heaven and Earth Changed Places and Child of War, Woman of Peace by Le Ly Hayslip -- Oliver Stone completes his self-declared 'Vietnam Trilogy' (the other films being Platoon and Born On the Fourth of July) of films examining the Vietnam War from different perspectives. Heaven and Earth begins in the central Vietnamese village of Ky La during the 1950s. Phung Le Ly (Hiep Thi Le) is an innocent peasant girl, helping her mother (Joan Chen) to tend the rice paddies while being lectured in the ways of life by her father (Haing Ngor). The idyllic peace of the village is disrupted when a jet bomber crosses the skies. Soon the village is decimated as the American-backed South Vietnamese government troops and the Viet Cong engage in brutal warfare in which the victims are the innocent villagers. Le Ly is both tortured and raped. She leaves Ky La for Danang for a life as a prostitute. There she meets the tall and craggy American soldier Steve Butler (Tommy Lee Jones), a kind but lonely man who isn't looking for sex but for someone to settle down with -- as he says, 'I want an Oriental wife.' They marry, and Steve takes her back to the United States, where her in-laws look at her not as a wife but as a pet. In the harsh glare of 1970s U.S. culture, Le Ly has trouble adjusting to the American way of life. But not as hard a time as her husband, who, after twenty years in Vietnam, discovers he cannot adapt to civilian life.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 15 November, 2005.

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