by Hal Erickson
synopsis
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.
characteristics
- Low Artistic Quality
- Home-front
- Death
- Dead
- Dying
- War
- Mothers And Sons
- Generation Gap
- Vietnam
- Anti-war
- Military-draft
- Protester
