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Release Date: 1993
Cast: Khiem Thai, Thuan Le, Dustin Nguyen, Hiep Thi Le, Lan Nguyen Calderon, Haing S. Ngor, Liem Whatley, Supak Pititam, Tommy Lee Jones, Bussaro Sanruck, Joan Chen, Debbie Reynolds ...MORE
Cast: Khiem Thai, Thuan Le, Dustin Nguyen, Hiep Thi Le, Lan Nguyen Calderon, Haing S. Ngor, Liem Whatley, Supak Pititam, Tommy Lee Jones, Bussaro Sanruck, Joan Chen, Debbie Reynolds, Thuan K. Nguyen ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Action, Period Piece, Drama Film, Docudrama, Marriage Drama, War Film
Heaven & Earth is a 1993 war film directed and written by Oliver Stone, and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Haing S. Ngor, Joan Chen, and Hiep Thi Le. It is the third film in Stone's Vietnam War trilogy, which also included Platoon (1986) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989).
The film was based on the books, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places and Child of War, Woman of Peace, which Le Ly Hayslip wrote about her experiences during and after the Vietnam War.
Le Ly Hayslip is a girl growing up in a Vietnamese village. Her life changes when the communist insurgents show up in the village to first... MORE
Heaven & Earth is a 1993 war film directed and written by Oliver Stone, and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Haing S. Ngor, Joan Chen, and Hiep Thi Le. It is the third film in Stone's Vietnam War trilogy, which also included Platoon (1986) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989).
The film was based on the books, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places and Child of War, Woman of Peace, which Le Ly Hayslip wrote about her experiences during and after the Vietnam War.
Le Ly Hayslip is a girl growing up in a Vietnamese village. Her life changes when the communist insurgents show up in the village to first fight the forces of France and then the United States. During the American involvement, Le Ly is captured and tortured by South Vietnamese government troops, and later raped by the Viet Cong because they suspect that she is a traitor. After the rape, her relationship with her village is destroyed, and she and her family are forced to move.
Her family moves to Saigon and she is employed by a family there. The master of the household misleads her into believing that he genuinely cares for her, and she falls for him and gets pregnant by him. The master's wife becomes enraged and Le Ly's whole family LESS
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