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In Country
Film poster for In Country
Directed by	Norman Jewison
Produced by	Norman Jewison Richard A. Roth
Written by	Frank Pierson and Cynthia Cidre (screenplay) Based on the novel by Bobbie Ann Mason
Starring	Bruce Willis Emily Lloyd
Music by	James Horner
Cinematography	Russell Boyd
Editing by	Antony Gibbs Lou Lombardo
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date(s)	September 29, 1989
Running time	120 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
IMDb profile

In Country is a 1989 American dramatic film produced and directed by Norman Jewison, starring Bruce Willis and Emily Lloyd, a British actress who underwent training to speak with a Kentucky accent in the film. The screenplay by Frank Pierson and Cynthia Cidre was based on the novel by Bobbie Ann Mason. The original music score was composed by James Horner.

Willis earned a best supporting actor Golden Globe nomination for his role.

Contents 1 Plot summary 2 Main cast 3 Trivia 4 External links

Recent high school graduate Samantha Hughes, 17, lives in fictional Hopewell, Kentucky with her uncle Emmett Smith, a quiet laid-back Vietnam War veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Samantha's father, Dwayne, was killed in Vietnam at 19 after marrying and impregnating Samantha's mother, Irene, who has since remarried. Samantha finds some old photographs, medals and letters of her father, and becomes obsessed with finding out more about him.

Irene, who has moved to Lexington, Kentucky with her second husband, wants Samantha to move in with them and go to college. But Samantha would rather stay with Emmett and try to find out more about her father. Her mother is no help, as she tells Samantha, "Honey, I married him for four weeks before he left for the war. He was 19. I hardly even remember him." Finally, Samantha, Emmett and her grandmother got to visit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Finding her father's name in the memorial releases cathartic emotions in Samantha and her family.

• Bruce Willis - Emmett Smith
• Emily Lloyd - Samantha Hughes
• Joan Allen - Irene
• Kevin Anderson - Lonnie
• John Terry - Tom
• Peggy Rea - Mamaw
• Judith Ivey - Anita
• Daniel Jenkins - Dwayne
• Steven Tobolowsky - Pete
• Jim Beaver - Earl Smith
• Richard Hamilton - Grandpaw
• Heidi Swedberg - Dawn
• Ken Jenkins - Jim Holly
• Jonathan Hogan - Larry
• Patricia Richardson - Cindy

• Many scenes were shot in Mayfield, Kentucky. The walk-in doctor's office seen in the film is actually a dry cleaners which was renamed "Clothes Doctor" following its appearance in the film.
• The veterans in the dance sequence are all actual Vietnam veterans, and their real family members accompany them.
• Of the five major characters who are Vietnam veterans, only one, Earl, is played by an actual Vietnam veteran, Jim Beaver.
• Ken Jenkins, who plays Jim Holly (the organizer of the veteran's dance), is the father of Daniel Jenkins, who plays Samantha's father Dwayne in the Vietnam flashbacks. Their casting in the film was purely coincidental.
• The commencement speaker was played by Don Young, the minister of a large Baptist church in Paducah, Kentucky. [1] In an interview with The Paducah Sun, he said the speech had been written for him but joked that it was so good, he might "borrow" parts of it in future sermons.

• In Country at the Internet Movie Database
• In Country at Rotten Tomatoes