Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Joan Chen, Debbie Reynolds, Hiep Thi Le, Haing S. Ngor

Director: Oliver Stone

Summary: The true story of Le Ly, a young girl living in Central Vietnam in the early 1950s. Raped by the Viet Cong and tortured by the South Vietnamese, she is eventually courted by a battle-scarred Marine and returns with him to America as his bride, anxious to put the past behind her.

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Anybody hungering for a good old-fashioned Western needs to check out Warriors of Heaven and Earth, which--although it's set in 7th-century China--has all the valor and spectacle of a John Ford picture. It also has a goofy supernatural streak, for the chopsocky crowd. The opening 10 minutes or so offer an alarmingly convoluted plot, but it swiftly settles down. What's going on is that a long-exiled Japanese hit man (Kiichi Nakai), hired to kill a renegade Chinese warrior (Jiang Wen), temporarily teams up with his quarry in order to escort a camel caravan along the Spice Road. Of course, they are menaced by a brutal warlord, and beautiful Zhao Wei (So Close) is mixed in there too. Director He Ping (Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker) captures some magnificent vistas in the Gobi Desert, but more importantly he sketches the codes or honor and behavior essential to any such tale. --Robert Horton

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Year:	1993
Release Date:	January 28, 2002
Runtime:	134 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	D 018533
Keywords:	Heaven, Earth, General, Drama
Genre:	Drama