Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

For the unrelated Scholastic book series with diaries about Female Fictional Teenage Historical Figures inspired by the CBS TV Series from Hallmark, see Dear America.

Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
Directed by	Bill Couturié
Produced by	Bill Couturié Thomas Bird Bernard Edelman
Written by	Bill Couturié Richard Dewhurst
Starring	Tom Berenger Ellen Burstyn Sean Penn Martin Sheen Robin Williams Willem Defoe Robert Downey Jr.
Music by	Todd Boekelheide
Cinematography	Michael Chin
Editing by	Stephen Stept Gary Weimberg
Distributed by	Corsair Pictures
Release date(s)	October 1987 September 9, 1988 November 17 November 30 January 5
Running time	87 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam is an Emmy Award–winning 1987 documentary, inspired by the book of the same title, directed by Bill Couturié. Using real letters written by US soldiers (which can be read in the book along with many more) and archive footage, the film creates a highly personal experience of the Vietnam War. The film won the Special Jury Prize: Documentary at Sundance Film Festival in 1988. It was also screened out of competition at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.^[1]

Roger Ebert commented, "There have been many great movies about Vietnam. This is the one that completes the story."

References

1. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/333/year/1988.html. Retrieved 2009-07-31. 

External links

• Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam at the Internet Movie Database
• Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam at AllRovi
• Review by Roger Ebert