Heaven & Earth
by Oliver Stone
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Actor: Haing S. Ngor, Hiep Thi Le, Joan Chen, Tommy Lee JonesDirector: Oliver Stone
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 4.0
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 140 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-10-19
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Model: 59649
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:
- Oliver Stone's powerful Vietnam saga of a man who fought, a woman who endured.and a love enmeshed in a war's brutality.Running Time: 140 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R Age: 012569596498 UPC: 012569596498 Manufacturer No: 59649
Movie Reviews of Heaven & Earth
Movie Review: Oliver Stone at His Best!
Summary: 5 Stars
I love most Oliver Stone films, though some of them I would never want to watch again because of how gritty they are. "Born on the Fourth of July" and "Platoon" come to mind - spectacular films, but I got a good enough eyeful at my first viewings of them. "Wall Street" and "Natural Born Killers" I do not wish to view again either, but for entirely different reasons.
Then we have "Heaven & Earth," the magnificent, very distressing, sweeping saga of Ley Ly Hayslip, a Vietnamese national who experiences the French occupation of her country, the atrocity of the Vietnam War, the immigration to America, the vicarious ramifications of post-traumatic stress syndrome, and the unanticipated return to her native village. This is Oliver Stone at his directorial zenith! This is Tommy Lee Jones at his frightening best! This is Hiep Thi Le's (Ley Ly), brilliant debut! And this is Kitaro with creative genius on the motion picture score!
Le's narration adds particular melancholy to the film. She sounds like she could have literally experienced the horrors of the woman she portrays. Ley Ly goes through hell on earth, folks! She is caught between the forces of the north and the south - neither of whom trust her; she and her family are forced to suffer the consequences for it. Men only seek to exploit her, and for a good while they succeed. However she meets Steve Butler (Jones) who does not want to manipulate her, but desires her for his wife. She mistrusts him initially, but Butler is persistent and kind. So she acquiesces. They marry and then leave Vietnam during the furious over-running of the south by the Viet Cong.
They happily arrive in America. Unfortunately, as time progresses Butler finds it much more difficult to adapt to life there than does his wife who is there for the first time. The demons of war that had been sleeping in his head come back to life, and wreak havoc for him and his family. The cataclysmic fallout eventually drives Ley Ly back home to her village in Vietnam, and she discovers her true worth and place in this world.
This film will stay with me forever; I will watch it again and again. Of all the narration Ley Ly speaks, I liked best when she said in the movie's final moments:
"If you walk only on sunny days you will never reach your destination."
Summary of Heaven & Earth
Synopsis:Item Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: R
Street Date: 10/19/04
Wide Screen: yes
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
LanguageENGLISH
Foreign Film: no
Subtitlesno
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: no
Re-Release: no
Packaging: Sleeve Please note: This supplier will be closed on 11/24, 11/25, 12/26, 1/2 for the holidays. The shipping cut off is 12/10 to try and have the products delivered by Christmas.
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