In Country Page #2

Synopsis: 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. Sam, as Samantha is known, becomes obsessed with finding out about her father and his experiences, but Emmett and the other vets don't want to talk about the war. Sam pushes everyone to attend a dance honoring the town's veterans, but Pete and Earl get into a fight, Emmett disappears, and Tom takes Sam home for an unsuccessful tryst. When Sam reads her father's diary, she begins to understand what his life and death meant, and she and Emmett, with a trip to the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial, come at least temporarily to terms with the war in their lives.
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Director(s): Norman Jewison
Production: Warner Home Video
 
IMDB:
5.9
Rotten Tomatoes:
70%
R
Year:
1989
120 min
141 Views


Nothing gonna hurt you, Pete.

You're like that guy on TV that ate a bicycle.

Oh that was on That's Incredible.

I saw that.

It's didn't hurt him much.

He was going to go up to Canada and eat a helicopter.

If I had a car I'd drive Emmett on down to the VA hospital

and get him checked out.

I got a car I'll sell ya.

Really?

A VW Bug. I'll fix it up real good. 600 bucks.

That's what I've got in it.

I don't know where I can round up that much cash.

Do you want a car?

I'll show you a car.

Look at this man!

Wow! Jeez!

You see that little thing there

that looks like a lady bug?

Uh ha. That's my old Corvette.

My wife sold it while I was gone.

Thing would be a classic now.

You got that right.

That's my house.

That there's my street. This is the county.

I think this could be the stupidest thing

I ever did in my life.

Nobody can eat a helicopter.

You don't know how to lie.

Hey, man.

Keep it long to the left.

Ride this bucko.

Think about that VW Sam.

Come on over and take a test drive

and teach me how to lie.

See y'all later.

See ya.

Sam now you come by any time you want.

I got tattoos in places you never even dreamed of.

Is that true what you told me about Pete

chasing his wife with a shotgun?

No, was her chased him.

Why?

Why?

Why does everything always have to have a reason Sam?

Because it does.

Some things don't.

Well things just are.

You can't do nothing about them.

I don't accept that.

Oh, you don't accept that.

No.

I see. What's your plan to deal with gravity?

Do you accept it?

How come all of a sudden

you have to know about Vietnam?

What do you remember when you think about it?

Jesus Christ , Sam.

Hey Emmett!

Hey Sam.

You want to come with me?

I want to talk to you.

Hey, Lonnie.

Go on. Go one. Lonnie take her out of here.

She's pestering me.

Boy, you're in a mood!

That's a good reason to be alone ain't it?

What's the matter with him?

Oh, I don't know.

They all act like there's some big

dark secret or something.

.

Why aren't you at work?

Well, I walked in there this morning and I looked in Quinnie's face

and I thought to myself, I do this for 30 years

and I'm going to look just like Quinnie.

So I told him I quit.

You what?

He says, "Fine we don't need you you're fired.

Wouldn't that burn your ass?

Oh, so you just up and quit.

Box boy. That ain't for me.

I'd like to do something outdoors

where I'm my own boss

Oh well you're your own boss now alright.

So how come you started hanging out

with Emmett's friends over at the diner?

You know I ain't crazy about that.

I didn't ask you to worry about it.

Those guys are still back in Vietnam.

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Frank Pierson

Frank Romer Pierson (May 12, 1925 – July 22, 2012) was an American screenwriter and film director. more…

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