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The War (Blu-ray)
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 6 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 13, 1999
- Originally Released: 1994
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Kevin Costner, Elijah Wood & Mare Winningham | |
Performer: | Lucas Black, Christine Baranski & Lexi Randall | |
Directed by | Jon Avnet | |
Edited by | Debra Neil-Fisher | |
Composition by | Thomas Newman | |
Produced by | Jon Avnet, Jordan Kerner & Todd R. Baker | |
Director of Photography: | Geoffrey Simpson | |
Executive Production by | Todd R. Baker & Eric Eisner |
Entertainment Reviews:
Presents the efforts of a father to teach his children the ideals he believes give life meaning and purpose.
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Spirituality and Practice
...[Costner] is effortlessly appealing, and [Wood] holds up his end of the story with equal assurance....Hominy-and-homilies rustic style...
New York Times
Rating: 1/5 --
Pretentious drivel
Kalamazoo Gazette
Rating: 2/4 --
This is one of those films so overwrought and overwritten that a perfectly good human story gets swamped in Statements About the Human Condition.
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Chicago Sun-Times
It's impossible to tell whom this movie was made for. Even William Bennett would have trouble staying awake.
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Newsweek
Product Description:
In the summer of 1970, Stephen (Kevin Costner) returns to his family in Mississippi after a stint in the Vietnam War, his emotional and psychological scars leave him depressed and alienated, while struggling to overcome the nightmare of post traumatic stress disorder. His wife Lois (Mare Winningham) becomes the one forced to struggle to keep food on the table, working grueling double shifts as a waitress and forced to rely on welfare. And his children, Stu (Elijah Wood) and Lidia (Lexi Randall) have it no easier: they're caught in a battle with a group of neighborhood bullies over a tree house that they built out of junk to be a safe haven for their friends, while trying to escape the pressures of school and life in a small Southern town. Ironically, these small-town hostilities are what finally help Stephen come to terms with the larger war he fought in Vietnam. And as he tries to communicate his personal philosophy about violence to his son Stu, the two create a bond stronger than any they have ever had before. By summer's end, both Stu and Lidia gain a new respect for their father's beliefs of peace and understanding as they discover the startling insights into themselves and the world around them.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 20,958
- UPC: 025192053320
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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