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Heaven & Earth

Lasting victories are won in the heart.

1993 · 2h 20m · R Drama, History, War
Directed by Oliver Stone

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In a small Vietnamese village torn apart by war, a young woman faces unimaginable horrors before deciding to escape to the city. There, she encounters a compassionate Marine who offers her hope and a chance at a new life, igniting the possibility of a future together.

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42%
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Mr. Stone tells this tale vigorously, but he has the wrong cinematic vocabulary for his heroine's essentially passive experience.

Janet Maslin, New York Times
Rotten

Heaven has so many themes, ranging from Buddhist spirituality to feminism, it ends up with none.

Desson Thomson, Washington Post
Fresh

This is the first time [Stone] has tried to place himself inside a woman's imagination, and that he succeeds so well is due partly...to an extraordinary performance by Hiep Thi Le in the leading role.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh

Heaven and Earth has the epic scope one would expect from a film of this magnitude, but it lacks much of the narrative strength of Stone's first two Vietnamese tales.

James Berardinelli, ReelViews

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