1969 (1988)
Directed by Ernest Thompson
Genres - Drama, War |
Sub-Genres - Anti-War Film, Coming-of-Age, Period Film |
Release Date - Nov 18, 1988 (USA) |
Run Time - 93 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - R
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Ernest Thompson, the playwright responsible for the Pulitzer Prize winning On Golden Pond, makes his directorial debut with 1969. Kiefer Sutherland plays a draft-age youth who undergoes an epiphany when one of his friends is killed in Vietnam. Sutherland's subsequent antiwar stance causes a great deal of tension within his own family, though his mother, Mariette Hartley, tries her best to understand.
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Keywords
home-front, death, anti-war, Vietnam, war, military-draft, protester
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Low Artistic Quality
