Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (1987)
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam is a 1987 documentary movie directed by Bill Couturié, with a running time of 1h 24m. It stars Ellen Burstyn, Tom Berenger and J. Kenneth Campbell.
Real-life letters written by American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines during the Vietnam War to their families and friends back home. Archive footage of the war and news coverage thereof augment the first-person "narrative" by men and women who were in the war, some of whom did not survive it.
Cast
- Ellen Burstyn as Mrs. Stocks (voice)
- Tom Berenger as (voice)
- J. Kenneth Campbell as (voice)
- Richard Chaves as (voice)
- Josh Cruze as (voice)
- Willem Dafoe as Elephant Grass (voice)
- Robert De Niro as Great Sewer (voice)
- Brian Dennehy as (voice)
- Kevin Dillon as Jack (voice)
- Matt Dillon as Mike (voice)
- Robert Downey Jr. as (voice)
- Michael J. Fox as Raymond Griffiths (voice)
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