Heaven & Earth
1993 · Movie · R · 140 min · ★ 6.6 · 48% critics
In war-torn Vietnam, a young woman’s village life is shattered by violence and upheaval, forcing her to fight for survival and search for safety. After fleeing to the city, she meets a kind American Marine who offers a fragile sense of hope and the possibility of starting over.
Also known as Heaven and Earth
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Details
- Years
- 1993
- Release date
- 1993-12-25
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 140 min
- Critic score
- 48/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.6/10 (285 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a harrowing, human-scale Vietnam War drama that centers ordinary lives and hard choices rather than battlefield heroics; Not for you if you avoid intense trauma or bleak themes like in Che: Part One.
Pros: powerful survival story; Vietnamese perspective; emotional performances | Cons: very heavy subject matter; uneven pacing; romance feels strained
Themes
- vietnam war
- vietnam
- war crimes
- saigon
- biography
- based on true story
- interracial relationship
- domestic violence
- based on memoir or autobiography
- dog
- immigrant experience
- vietnamese woman
Cast & crew
Hiep Thi Le
as Le Ly
Tommy Lee Jones
as Steve Butler
Joan Chen
as Mama
Haing S. Ngor
as Papa
Debbie Reynolds
as Eugenia
Conchata Ferrell
as Bernice
Dustin Nguyễn
as Sau
Vivian Wu
as Madame Lien
Robert John Burke
as Paul
Timothy Carhart
as Big Mike
Directed by Oliver Stone