Characters & Themes
In Country (1989) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1989 · 120 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Norman Jewison
- Starring
- Joan Allen, Bruce Willis, Judith Ivey, Stephen Tobolowsky, Patricia Richardson, Ken Jenkins
Samantha Hughes, a teenage girl from Kentucky, never met her father, who was killed in Vietnam before she was born. She lives with her uncle Emmett, a Vietnam veteran, and his friends Tom, Earl and Pete—former soldiers each coping with their own war‑related scars. Driven by curiosity, Samantha becomes determined to learn the truth about her father.
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