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In Country

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Directed by Norman Jewison
Produced by Norman Jewison and Richard A. Roth
Screenplay by Frank Pierson and Cynthia Cidre Based on the novel by Bobbie Ann Mason
With: Bruce Willis, Emily Lloyd, Joan Allen, Kevin Anderson, John Terry, Peggy Rea, Judith Ivey, Daniel Jenkins, Stephen Tobolowsky, Jim Beaver, and Ken Jenkins
Cinematography: Russell Boyd
Editing: Lou Lombardo and Antony Gibbs
Music: James Horner
Runtime: 120 min
Release Date: 29 September 1989
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
Color: Color
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Jewison employs an odd plucky-yet-forlorn tone in this disjointed but engaging adaptation of Bobbi Ann Mason's first novel about a headstrong 17-year-old Kentucky girl living with her PTSD afflicted Vietnam vet uncle. Lloyd and Willis both seem miscast, but she really shines and he merely keeps his head above water.