Dear America - Letters Home from Vietnam

Dear America - Letters Home from Vietnam
by Bill Couturi?

Dear America - Letters Home from Vietnam
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Actor: Ellen Burstyn, J. Kenneth Campbell, Josh Cruze, Richard Chaves, Tom Berenger
Director: Bill Couturi?
Cinematographer: Michael Chin
Producer: Bill Couturi?
Writer: Bill Couturi?
Editor: Gary Weimberg
Producer: Bernard Edelman
Producer: Thomas Bird
Writer: Richard Dewhurst
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 87 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-11-01
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Hbo Home Video

Movie Reviews of Dear America - Letters Home from Vietnam

Movie Review: One of the Best Documentaries Ever Made
Summary: 5 Stars

"Dear America" is the only Vietnam movie that I'm aware of that focuses exclusively on how everyday troops communicated their view of the war to friends and loved ones back home. As such, it creates an intimate, panoramic picture of how Vietnam affected people psychologically. "Dear America" intersperses the voices of actors reading letters from actual soldiers with archival footage, while playing period music and giving quick facts on the screen. The tone of the letters becomes more and more bleak as the chronology progresses- from many of them being hopeful to securing a better future for the people in Vietnam to many of them being disillusioned. Some are angry at what they see as lack of support from home. The best reason to watch "Dear America" is that it clearly shows that each of the troops in Vietnam had a story to tell, and that many of them didn't get to fulfill their hopes and dreams. Highly recommended.

Summary of Dear America - Letters Home from Vietnam

This classic HBO documentary features reenactments of actual letters written by soldiers during the Vietnam war. In each case, a famous celebrity voice (Martin Sheen, Michael J. Fox, Robin Williams, and others) reads the letters to us.
All the confusion, pain, despair, and even hope of the men and women who served in Vietnam is captured in Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam. Read by dozens of actors such as Harvey Keitel, Matt Dillon, and Kathleen Turner, these letters show a more human story of the war than we see in most media outlets and reveal real people in real situations trying to explain or understand. The footage, some newsreel, some shot by the servicemen and servicewomen, reveals a tension between the soldiers' actual experiences and the presentation their loved ones received from television. The soundtrack weaves the songs of the 1960s with the readings to create a compelling aural snapshot of the time, which complements the video exceptionally well. While it's not a "feel-good" movie, the viewer does get a sense of the indestructibility of human dreams. --Rob Lightner

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