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Heaven & Earth (1994)
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Synopsis
With
Heaven and Earth
-- cobbled together from two autobiographical reminiscences (When Heaven and Earth Changed Places and Child of War, Woman of Peace by Le Ly Hayslip --
Oliver Stone
completes his self-declared "Vietnam Trilogy" (the other films being
Platoon
and
Born On the Fourth of July
) of films examining the Vietnam War from different perspectives.
Heaven and Earth
begins in the central Vietnamese village of Ky La during the 1950s. Phung Le Ly (Hiep Thi Le) is an innocent peasant girl, helping her mother (
Joan Chen
) to tend the rice paddies while being lectured in the ways of life by her father (Haing Ngor). The idyllic peace of the village is disrupted when a jet bomber crosses the skies. Soon the village is decimated as the American-backed South Vietnamese government troops and the Viet Cong engage in brutal warfare in which the victims are the innocent villagers. Le Ly is both tortured and raped. She leaves Ky La for Danang for a life as a prostitute. There she meets the tall and craggy American soldier Steve Butler (
Tommy Lee Jones
), a kind but lonely man who isn't looking for sex but for someone to settle down with -- as he says, "I want an Oriental wife." They marry, and Steve takes her back to the United States, where her in-laws look at her not as a wife but as a pet. In the harsh glare of 1970s U.S. culture, Le Ly has trouble adjusting to the American way of life. But not as hard a time as her husband, who, after twenty years in Vietnam, discovers he cannot adapt to civilian life. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
Cast
Robert John Burke
G.I. Paul
Timothy Carhart
Big Mike
Michael Paul Chan
Interrogator
Joan Chen
Mama
Conchata Ferrell
Bernice
Tim Guinee
Young Sergeant
Tommy Lee Jones
Steve Butler
Dr. Haing S. Ngor
Papa
Dustin Nguyen
Sau
Debbie Reynolds
Eugenia
Liem Whatley
Viet Cong Captain
Vivian Wu
Madame Lien
Dale Dye
Larry
Hiep Thi Le
Production Crew
Les Tomkins
Art Director
Woods Mackintosh
Art Director
Richard Rutowski
Associate Producer
Risa Bramon Garcia
Associate Producer
Jay Wurts
Book Author
Le Ly Hayslip
Book Author
Robert Richardson
Cinematographer
Clayton Townsend
Co-producer
Kitaro
Composer (Music Score)
Ha Nguyen
Costume Designer
Oliver Stone
Director
David Brenner
Editor
Sally Menke
Editor
Mario Kassar
Executive Producer
Chitra Mojtabai
First Assistant Director
Herbert W. Gains
First Assistant Director
Matthew Mungle
Makeup
A. Kitman Ho
Producer
Arnon Milchan
Producer
Oliver Stone
Producer
Robert Kline
Producer
Robert Kline
Producer
Alan Tomkins
Production Designer
Clayton Townsend
Production Designer
Steve Spence
Production Designer
Victor Kempster
Production Designer
Oliver Stone
Screenwriter
Jack Gammon Taylor, Jr.
Set Designer
Merideth Boswell
Set Designer
Ted Glass
Set Designer
James Hayslip
Short Story Author
James Hayslip
Short Story Author
Brian Cox
Special Effects
Year: 1994
Runtime: 140
Country: USA
MPAA Rating: R
Category: Feature
Genre
Drama
Sound
Dolby
Produced by
Warner Brothers
© 2009 Spout LLC. Portions of content provided by All Movie Guide.