In Country (1989) on Netflix
Samantha Hughes, seventeen, lives in Kentucky with her uncle Emmett, who came home from Vietnam. Her father died in that war before she was born, and she wants to know him.
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Plot summary
Samantha Hughes is seventeen and has just left high school in Kentucky, where she shares a house with her uncle Emmett Smith. Emmett served in Vietnam and has post-traumatic stress disorder. He spends his days with Tom, Pete and Earl, fellow veterans whose own war experiences still trouble them. Samantha's father, Dwayne, died in Vietnam after he had married her mother, Irene, and Samantha never met him. Sorting through old belongings, she finds photographs, medals and letters that were his, and she sets out to learn what his life had been. Irene, now remarried, wants her daughter to move in with her and start college, but Samantha stays with Emmett, whose circle will not talk about the war.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about In Country (1989)
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- The veterans in the film's dance sequence are all real Vietnam veterans, with their real family members alongside them, and of the five major characters who are veterans, only Earl, played by Jim Beaver, was portrayed by an actual Vietnam veteran.
- Emily Lloyd stayed with a lawyer and his family in Paducah, Kentucky to prepare for her role, drew on the death of her paternal grandfather, the British actor Charles Lloyd Pack, and trained to speak with a Kentucky accent.
- Much of In Country was shot in Kentucky's Jackson Purchase, where novelist Bobbie Ann Mason grew up, and the film's walk-in doctor's office was a real dry cleaners that renamed itself "Clothes Doctor" after appearing in the film.
