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Movie
Heartbreak Ridge
Synopsis
Action drama in which an old Vietnam veteran who is disillusioned with the hi-tech, by-the-book modern military, requests a posting to his old unit to see out his soldiering days. Tough and foul-mouthed, the marine sergeant puts a squadron of lazy young recruits through their paces, turning them into a well disciplined fighting unit - just in time for a hazardous rescue mission to the small Caribbean island of Grenada, Having spent much of his directorial career emulating Don Siegel and John Ford, Clint Eastwood borrows a page from the catalogue of Sam Fuller in Heartbreak Ridge. Eastwood casts himself as an old-fashioned Marine Corps sergeant who is out of step with the new-fashioned military. He returns to his old outfit as a gunnery sergeant, where he runs afoul of 1980s-style superior officers to whom the words "Gung Ho" are foolish anachronisms. But through his tough tutelage, Eastwood's lackadaisical platoon is whipped into a first-rate fighting machine, favoring teamwork over such New Age gobbledygook as "self-fulfillment." Eastwood's men prove their mettle during the invasion of Grenada.
Cast
- Clint Eastwood
- Marsha Mason
- Everett McGill
- Moses Gunn
- Eileen Heckart
- Bo Svenson
- Boyd Gaines
- Mario Van Peebles
- Arlen Dean Snyder
- Vincent Irizarry
- Ramón Franco
- Tom Villard
- Mike Gomez
- Rodney Hill
- Pete Koch
- Peter Koch
- Richard Venture
- Peter Jason
- J.C. Quinn
- Begona Plaza
- Thom Sharp
- John Hostetter
- Nicholas Worth
- Dutch Mann
- Darwyn Swalve
- Christopher Michael
- Rebecca Perle
- Elizabeth Ruscio
- Lloyd Nelson
- Michael Maurer
- Joel Cox
- Glenn Wright
- Lennie Niehaus
- Wayne Van Horn
- Vern Poore
- Dick Alexander
- Jack Green
- Les Fresholtz
- William Nelson
- Edward C. Carfagno
- Edward Carfagno
- Fritz Manes
- Phyllis Huffman
- Robert R. Benton
- James Carabatsos