Steve Butler
Search results
Heaven & Earth is a 1993 American biographical war drama film written and directed by Oliver Stone, and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Haing S. Ngor, Joan Chen, and Hiep Thi Le. It is the third and final film in Stone's Vietnam War trilogy, following Platoon (1986) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989). The film was based on the books When Heaven ...
Jan 7, 1994 · Heaven & Earth: Directed by Oliver Stone. With Haing S. Ngor, Bussaro Sanruck, Supak Pititam, Joan Chen. During the Vietnam War, a Vietnamese woman struggles hustling on the streets, where she comes face to face with those involved in the conflict around her.
Dec 24, 1993 · Oliver Stone has made films about Vietnam from the point of view of a combat infantryman and a disabled veteran, and now in "Heaven and Earth" he completes his trilogy by viewing the war through the eyes of a Vietnamese woman.
Le Ly's beloved brothers are both sent away to fight for the communist side, an event that drives her mother to be much more demanding, callous and critical. The once gentle and kind woman slaps Le Ly during a heated dinnertime discussion and accuses her of being spoiled and useless for work.
Le Ly (Hiep Thi Le) lives in a small Vietnamese village whose serenity is shattered when war breaks out. Caught between the Viet Cong and the South Vietnamese army, the village is all but...
- (21)
- Drama
- R
As a freedom fighter, a hustler, young mother, a sometime prostitute, and the wife of a US. marine, the girl's relationships with men suggests an analogy of Vietnam as Woman and the U.S. as Man ...
The true story of Le Ly, a young girl living in Central Vietnam in theearly 1950s who is raped by the Viet Cong and tortured by the SouthVietnamese. 902 IMDb 6.8 2 h 22 min 1994. R. Historical · Military and War · Intense · Malicious. Available to rent or buy.
Heaven & Earth is a 1993 American biographical war drama film written and directed by Oliver Stone, and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Haing S. Ngor, Joan Chen, and Hiep Thi Le. It is the third and final film in Stone's Vietnam War trilogy, which also includes Platoon (1986) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989). The film was based on the books When ...
Dec 25, 1993 · Overview. Le Ly lives in a small Vietnamese village whose serenity is shattered when war breaks out. Caught between the Viet Cong and the South Vietnamese army, the village is all but destroyed. After being both brutalized and raped, Le Ly resolves to flee.
Year: 1993. Original title: Heaven and Earth. Synopsis: In this final film of his Vietnam trilogy, Oliver Stone turns his cameras away from the experience of the American combatants to focus on the devastating effect of the war on the Vietnamese people.
