Drama, the third (after Platoon and Born of the Fourth of July) of Oliver Stone 's Vietnam trilogy. In 1963, the peace of the rice-farming village of Ky La is disrupted by the arrival of the Viet Cong, warning of the threat from the South Vietnamese government and its US allies. For 12-year-old Le Ly, sixth-born child of the Phung family, it is the beginning of a harrowing voyage that will take her many miles from her native land. Widescreen. Review page 55.
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