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Heartbreak Ridge

Synopsis:

Having spent much of his directorial career emulating Don Siegel and John Ford, Clint Eastwood borrows a page from the catalogue of Sam Fuller in Heartbreak Ridge. Eastwood casts himself as an old-fashioned Marine Corps sergeant who is out of step with the new-fashioned military. He returns to his old outfit as a gunnery sergeant, where he runs afoul of 1980s-style superior officers to whom the words "Gung Ho" are foolish anachronisms. But through his tough tutelage, Eastwood's lackadaisical platoon is whipped into a first-rate fighting machine, favoring teamwork over such New Age gobbledygook as "self-fulfillment.


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Movie Details:

  • Director: Clint Eastwood
  • Studio: Jay Weston Productions, Malpaso, Warner Brothers
  • Year: 1986
  • Run Time: 130 minutes
  • Country: USA
  • Language: English
  • MPAA Rating: R
  • Category: Feature
  • Genre/Type: Drama
  • Filmed in: Color
  • Release: 1986 12 05 (USA)

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