A BRIGHT SHINING LIE - DVD

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• Release Year: 1998
• Genre: Drama; War
• Plot: Vietnam was a devastating war. From the Communist North to the U.S. supported South, it saw one nation brutally torn apart, and at the heart of it, one man.; ; Lt. Colonel john Paul Vann (Bill Paxton (Titanic, Twister, Apollo 1 3)) is one of the first U.S. senior military advisers sent to Vietnam. Vann is as complex as the war itself - a husband and father who takes lovers as casually as he takes control of every situation... except one. In Vietnam, Vann finds himself fighting a war he cannot win alongside a corrupt and demoralized South Vietnamese Army. But what leads a man to expose the truth and sacrifice his career? To fly from a loving home to a war-torn battlefield. To turn from a soldier of strategy to a. general of ruthless bombing campaigns which can only destroy what they cannot defeat.; ; A man - a time - a nation of change. What they share together and what tears them apart is A BRIGHT SHINING LIE.
• Cast: Bill Paxton; Bo Eason; William L. Mansey; Karina Logue; Amy Madigan; Robert L. Hull; Donal Logue; 'Josh' Somsak Orajan; Harve Presnell; Robert John Burke; Bill Whelan; Kay Tong Lim; Seng Kawee; Kajie Khan; Vivian Wu; Van Thoa Trinh; Richard Montgomery; Andrew Borba; Michael Markovitch; John Patrick Markovitch; Kathleen Markovitch; Richard DeRusha; Richard Libertini; James Bigwood; Ed Lauter; Kurtwood Smith; Eric Bogosian; Jon Marsh; Les Mau; David Warshofsky; Thanh Nguyen; Xuyen Dangers; Tom Hong; Wannipa 'Aoi' Navapan; Pichariva Narakbunchai; Somboon Phutaroth; Phillip Roope; Graham 'Grace' Walker; Robert Miranda; Colin D. Smith; Jim Pearson; John Higgins; Vu Dinh Nguyen; Chang Ching Peng Chaplin; Apichart Chusakul; James Rebhorn; Robert Pross; Robert J. Szempruch; Chris Webster; John Lafayette; Rory J. Aylward; Todd Sible; Bill Monsour; Susan Noel Benfatto; Greg Bronson; Walter Cronkite; Erich Fleshman; Lyndon B. Johnson; Ngoc Loan Nguyen; Richard Nixon; Phong Atwood Vo; Terry George; Neil Sheehan
• Director: Terry George
• Runtime: 1:58
• Company: Home Box Office (HBO), Labrador Films
• Media Format: Movie