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starring Danny Glover, Ray Liotta...
Glover, as a U.S. green beret commander, squares off against up-and-coming green beret leader Ray Liotta. The two disagree over how to handle relations with a mountain village on the edge of the Ho Chi Minh trail, and while they are off on a scouting mission, a group of Viet Cong enter the village and punish the locals for helping Americans by shooting their elephant...
...village is horrified by the killing because not only is their elephant their only farm labor source, but he is held sacred by village tradition. And it is up to Liotta and Glover to get them...
Your imagination can take over at this point: joined by a sarcastic requisitions officer (Denis Leary), and two inept privates (Doug E. Doug and Corin Nemec), Glover and Liotta argue themselves all the way to an available elephant...
Perhaps responsive to this, Ray Liotta, who mastered the guise of the Irish-turned-Italian Mafioso in "Goodfellas," was also nothing extraordinary. He plays the recently widowed Manny Singer who is busily trying to piece his life back together after his wife's death. Symbolic of the glazed-over, plastic, "Leave It to Beaver"-esque tone of this film, Manny Singer writes the music and lyrics for toy company advertisements. Perhaps you've always wondered who did this sort of thing, but the 1950,s setting makes this film cheesy, alleviating the more apparent, and perhaps interesting, struggle for racial...