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 ...
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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. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Add this copy of Heartbreak Ridge to cart. $4.00, very good condition, Sold by Fabulous Fiction Book Store rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Oxford, MA, UNITED STATES, published 2001 by Warner Brothers.
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Clint Eastwood, Marsha Mason, Everett McGill, Moses Gunn, Eileen Heckart. Very good in very good packaging. Language: English. Run time: 130 mins. Originally released: 1986. (m5a) VHS movie is in excellent condition, with box in VG+/ Fine condition with light wear at corners.
I fell hard for this movie when I first watched it, since then I've watched it over and over again. It has it all~~love, respect, rejection, admiration...well, it's one hell of a good movie.