Gardens of Stone R

The story of the war at home, and the people who lived through it.
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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 52 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: July 11, 2017
  • Originally Released: 1987
  • Label: Mill Creek Entertainment

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User Ratings: 2,431
Rating: B -- Subdued war drama on life on the home front during the Vietnam war. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
May 20, 2012
There's a pervasive and worrying sense of the central issues being gently but undeniably fudged. Full Review
Time Out
Jun 24, 2006
There's a curious ambiguity in Coppola's feelings about the soldiers and their life. Full Review
Washington Post
Jan 1, 2000
Rating: 2/5 -- The most important missing ingredient is Mr. Coppola.
New York Times
May 20, 2003
Rating: 3/4 -- Unjustly underrated upon its release, Gardens of Stone is a quiet, respectful film filled with emotional power, exceptional acting (especially by Caan), and technical virtuosity. Full Review
TV Guide
Dec 11, 2007
Rating: B+ -- Subtle and elegiac, Coppola's anti-Vietnam War meditation is one of the director's most misunderstood films. Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Aug 2, 2007
Rating: 2.5/4 -- Every moment is right, and yet the film as a whole is incomplete. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
Jan 1, 2000

Product Description:

GARDENS OF STONE is Francis Ford Coppola's poetic tribute to the men who form the Old Guard, soldiers in charge of burying the dead at Arlington National Cemetery during the war in Vietnam. Clell Hazard (James Caan), an army sergeant who opposes the war because he believes it can't be won, becomes attached to a battle-hungry young soldier, Jackie Willow (D. B. Sweeney). Hazard knows the reality the youth will encounter if he goes to Vietnam, after serving two tours himself. His girlfriend, Washington reporter Samantha Davis (Anjelica Huston), also opposes the war, but for different reasons. Feeling useless in the Old Guard, Hazard requests a transfer to Fort Bragg, where he can help prepare the young soldiers for what they must face in Vietnam. Jackie is reunited with his girlfriend, Rachel (Mary Stuart Masterson), whose father, a retired colonel (played by Masterson's real-life father, Peter Masterson), sees the war as a commercial opportunity. James Earl Jones is a show-stealer as Goody Nelson, Hazard's best friend and voice of reason. The film's scenes of military burials--drills carried out with precision and ritual--are beautiful to watch.

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  • UPC: 683904546494
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