Jacknife

Year: 1989

Runtime: 102 mins

Language: English

Director: David Hugh Jones

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After serving together in Vietnam, two surviving friends return home, where one lives with his sister. Tension erupts when the sister begins a romantic relationship with the other veteran, a man who embodies the painful memories of the battle they all endured, leaving the first soldier consumed by jealousy and trauma.

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