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In Country is a 1989 American dramatic film produced and directed by Norman Jewison, starring Bruce Willis and Emily Lloyd. The screenplay by Frank Pierson and Cynthia Cidre was based on the novel by Bobbie Ann Mason. The original music score was composed by James Horner.

Plot summary

17-year-old Samantha Hughes lives in Hopewell, Kentucky with her uncle Emmett Smith, a quiet laid-back veteran of the Vietnam War who is suffering from post-tramatic stress. Samantha's father Dwayne was killed in Vietnam when he was 19-years-old (almost her age now) and her mother Irene has remarried. Samantha finds some old photographs of her father, and she becomes obsessed with finding out more about him. Irene, who has moved to Lexington with her second husband, wants Samantha to move in with them and go to college. But Samantha would rather stay with Emmett and try to find out more about her father. Her mother is no help, as she tells Samantha, "Honey, I married him for four weeks before he left for the war. He was 19. I hardly even remember him." Finally, Samantha, Emmett and her grandmother got to visit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Finding her father's name in the memorial releases cathartic emotions in Samantha and her family.

Main cast

Bruce Willis
- Emmett Smith
Emily Lloyd
- Samantha Hughes
Joan Allen
- Irene
Kevin Anderson - Lonnie
John Terry - Tom
Peggy Rea - Mamaw
Judith Ivey
- Anita
Daniel Jenkins - Dwayne
Steven Tobolowski - Pete
Jim Beaver - Earl Smith
Richard Hamilton - Grandpaw
Heidi Swedberg
- Dawn
Ken Jenkins
- Jim Holly
Jonathan Hogan - Larry
Patricia Richardson
- Cindy

Trivia

The veterans in the dance sequence are all actual Vietnam veterans, and their real family members accompany them.
Of the five major characters who are Vietnam veterans, only one, Earl, is played by an actual Vietnam veteran, Jim Beaver.
Ken Jenkins
, who plays Jim Holly (the organizer of the veteran's dance), is the father of Daniel Jenkins, who plays Samantha's father Dwayne in the Vietnam flashbacks. Their casting in the film was purely coincidental.
The doctor's office seen in the film is actually a dry cleaners which is still operating in Mayfield, Kentucky. After the film, the store was named "Clothes Doctor" as a result of appearing in the film.
Bruce Willis
earned a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture.
British Actress Emily Lloyd
has trained a Kentuckian accent for her role.

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