Zurück aus der Hölle (1989)

Zurück aus der Hölle: Directed by Norman Jewison. With Bruce Willis, Emily Lloyd, Joan Allen, Kevin Anderson. A young girl whose father died in the Vietnam War becomes determined to find out more about him and his experiences.

“Itu0026#39;s easy to see why so few people seem to have connected with this underrated movie. Thereu0026#39;s no nudity, no violence, no killing, no superstars chewing up the scenery. It is, instead, a quiet, maybe too slow-moving, film about a teenage girl at the cusp of womanhood trying to learn about what Vietnam had been like for her father, who was killed there. She also begins to see her ex-G.I. uncle clearly, for the first time, as a survivor of something terrible. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIn Country is about the Vietnam War only as in the sense that itu0026#39;s also about a familyu0026#39;s history whose impact bridges the generations. Itu0026#39;s less about events than it is about becoming a grown-up in an America that has a sixty-second attention span and a fifteen-minute memory. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eEmily Lloyd, who youu0026#39;d never guess is English, does a beautifully sensitive job in the starring role, and Bruce Willis, as her uncle, turns in a very fine, very dignified performance.”