- Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
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For the unrelated Scholastic book series with diaries about Female Fictional Teenage Historical Figures inspired by the CBS TV Series from Hallmark, see Dear America.
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam Directed by Bill Couturié Produced by Bill Couturié
Thomas Bird
Bernard EdelmanWritten by Bill Couturié
Richard DewhurstStarring Tom Berenger
Ellen Burstyn
Sean Penn
Martin Sheen
Robin Williams
Willem Defoe
Robert Downey Jr.Music by Todd Boekelheide Cinematography Michael Chin Editing by Stephen Stept
Gary WeimbergDistributed by Corsair Pictures Release date(s) October 1987
September 9, 1988
November 17
November 30
January 5Running time 87 minutes Country United States Language English Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam is an Emmy Award–winning 1987 documentary, inspired by the book of the same title, directed by Bill Couturié. Using real letters written by US soldiers (which can be read in the book along with many more) and archive footage, the film creates a highly personal experience of the Vietnam War. The film won the Special Jury Prize: Documentary at Sundance Film Festival in 1988. It was also screened out of competition at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
Roger Ebert commented, "There have been many great movies about Vietnam. This is the one that completes the story."
References
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/333/year/1988.html. Retrieved 2009-07-31.
External links
- Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam at the Internet Movie Database
- Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam at AllRovi
- Review by Roger Ebert
Categories:- American films
- English-language films
- 1987 films
- Documentary films about the Vietnam War
- Films directed by Bill Couturié
- American documentary films
- Letters (message)
- 1980s documentary films
- Vietnam War stubs
- War documentary film stubs
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