Heaven and Earth

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Heaven and Earth

R

Released Dec 25, 1993

2h 20m

Drama

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Le Ly (Hiep Thi Le) 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 (Tommy Lee Jones) who treats her kindly and tells her he would like to be married -- maybe to her.

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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

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

Mar 13, 2015

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Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Chronicle

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

Rated: 1/5

Nov 21, 2004

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Janet Maslin

New York Times

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

Rated: 2.5/5

Jun 5, 2004

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

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

Rated: 3/4

Nov 16, 2024

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Rob Gonsalves

Rob's Movie Vault

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

Rated: B-

Aug 31, 2022

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Robert Stone

The New York Review of Books

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.

Aug 15, 2018

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Munkhchimeg T

What a romantic movie 😍. Soooo lovely to feel their chemistry ⚛️

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

08/07/24

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Geke g

It is really shows what’s the difference between heaven and hell. Amazing

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

08/07/24

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Bahad j

This idea of the film shooting technique director made the film more attractive to people.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

08/06/24

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Audience Member

The greatest 02 hours: and 20 minutes ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/11/23

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Audience Member

By far the best Vietnam movie, especially considered so in Vietnam itself, where I worked for a couple of years. Seen through the eyes of a young woman, whose family is ripped apart by their different views of the whole thing

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/23/23

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Audience Member

Beautiful cinematography and well acted but it is long boring journey to get through.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/20/23

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Synopsis

Le Ly (Hiep Thi Le) 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 (Tommy Lee Jones) 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 20m
Sound Mix: Surround, Stereo

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