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...Jewison; 102 minutes...
...COUNTRY Directed by Norman Jewison...
...film starts to gather force and direction when a dance, organized to honor the local Viet vets, works out awkwardly. And when -- at Samantha's insistence -- Emmett and Mamaw join her on a pilgrimage to the Viet Nam Veterans Memorial in Washington, the movie achieves real power. Director Norman Jewison understates his final sequence with admirable tact. No melodramatic shocks of recognition, no epiphanies -- merely simple people silently touching the names of loved ones inscribed on the memorial, tentatively, thoughtfully restoring connections. It is just fine, just right, just enough for now. In Country is, finally, a lovely, necessary little...
Directed by Norman Jewison...
Today, as America attempts to understand its collective experiences with Vietnam the war has followed its veterans back home. In Country, a new film by Norman Jewison attempts to deal with the Vietnam War in this larger sense. Though a substantial body of recent films have attempted to examine the Vietnam conflict In Country is the first film to deal directly with the impact of the war on its survivors--the children family and friends of those who fought and died as well as the veterans themselves...