Heaven and Earth

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Heaven and Earth

R,

1993,

2h 32m,

Drama

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43%

21 Reviews

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71%

5,000+ Ratings

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71%

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Le Ly lives in a small Vietnamese village whose serenity is shattered when war breaks out. Caught between the Viet Cong and the South Vietnamese army, the village is all but destroyed. After being both brutalized and raped, Le Ly resolves to flee. She leaves for the city, surviving desperate situations, but surviving nonetheless. Eventually she meets a U.S. Marine named Steve Butler who treats her kindly and tells her he would like to be married -- maybe to her.

Critics Consensus

Heaven & Earth is a well-intentioned glimpse into an underrepresented perspective on Vietnam, but Oliver Stone's solemn storytelling keeps audiences at a fatal distance from Hiep Thi Le's enigmatic heroine.

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David Ansen

Newsweek

Mar 13, 2015

Some of the parts are undeniably gripping; what gets lost are the characters themselves.

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Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Chronicle

Nov 21, 2004

1/5

What Oliver Stone has created is his Mrs. Miniver for the Vietnam era.

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Janet Maslin

New York Times

Jun 5, 2004

2.5/5

Mr. Stone tells this tale vigorously, but he has the wrong cinematic vocabulary for his heroine's essentially passive experience.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

Nov 16, 2024

3/4

While the third film in Oliver Stone’s Vietnam War trilogy is easily the weakest, it nevertheless deserved a better fate than it received.

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Rob Gonsalves

Rob's Movie Vault

Aug 31, 2022

B-

Stone rams the heroine’s agony down your throat instead of letting you feel it for yourself.

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Robert Stone

The New York Review of Books

Aug 15, 2018

From the moment the war intrudes on the landscape with the coming of the French troops in the 1950s, the mood is somber and almost ceremonial and perhaps for that reason the many emotional scenes fail to move us.

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Poe W

Aug 26, 2018

Great movie ! Star performance by Hiep Thi Le. The somber mood may be a bit on the excessive side, but not for those who have a personal relation with these tragic events.

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Uli Lommel

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Steve Butler

Hiep Thi Le

Le Ly

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Synopsis

Le Ly lives in a small Vietnamese village whose serenity is shattered when war breaks out. Caught between the Viet Cong and the South Vietnamese army, the village is all but destroyed. After being both brutalized and raped, Le Ly resolves to flee. She leaves for the city, surviving desperate situations, but surviving nonetheless. Eventually she meets a U.S. Marine named Steve Butler who treats her kindly and tells her he would like to be married -- maybe to her.

Director: Uli Lommel
Producer: Uli Lommel, A. Kitman Ho, Robert Kline, Arnon Milchan, Oliver Stone
Screenwriter: Oliver Stone
Production Co: Canal+, Warner Brothers/Seven Arts, Alcor Films
Rating: R
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 25, 1993, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): May 8, 2015
Runtime: 2h 32m
Sound Mix: Surround, Stereo

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