Thirty years after they served together in Vietnam, a former Navy Corpsman Larry "Doc" Shepherd re-unites with his old buddies, former Marines Sal Nealon and Reverend Richard Mueller, to bur... Read allThirty years after they served together in Vietnam, a former Navy Corpsman Larry "Doc" Shepherd re-unites with his old buddies, former Marines Sal Nealon and Reverend Richard Mueller, to bury his son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War.Thirty years after they served together in Vietnam, a former Navy Corpsman Larry "Doc" Shepherd re-unites with his old buddies, former Marines Sal Nealon and Reverend Richard Mueller, to bury his son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 11 nominations
- Hyped-up Employee
- (as Marc Moore Jr.)
Storyline
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- TriviaSteve Carell consulted with his father, a WWII veteran, to prepare for his role.
- GoofsIncorrectly Regarded as Goof: Age of Steve Carell doesn't match up for Vietnam service. However, the movie takes place in the past. If you presume Steve Carrel is 55 (as he was at the time the film was shot) during the movie's setting of 2003, he would have turned 19 (when he was there as per the "Disneyland" story) in 1967, the height of the US involvement in the war.
- Quotes
Larry 'Doc' Shepherd: I'm not going to bury a marine. I'm just going to bury my son.
- SoundtracksSlow Walk
Written by Sil Austin and Irving Siders
Performed by Sil Austin
Courtesy of The Verve Music Group under license from Universal Music Enterprises
A great, low-key mixture of comedy and sadness. The more it went on the more I appreciated the situation, which unfolds like a play, and the ensemble acting, which is sharp. Bryan Cranston steals the show as the outgoing practical bartender veteran, but Laurence Fishburne and Steve Carell are really spot on, too, in deliberately restrained ways. The film is trying to get to something here. At first it seems to be about some guys coming to terms with their time in Viet Nam, and how it compromised them then, with repurcussions ever onward. Then a slow critique of war and of the US approach to war, pretending everyone in uniform is always a hero, and fighting for questionable (or worse) causes. But an important third element grows-the actual meaning these men have for each other. They hadn't seen each other in decades, but their comraderie was almost unbroken because of some deep bond formed in wartime. And when it really comes down to it, even as they reject and hate the government for what they were forced to do, they still understood honor and respect. Including a love of country, somehow. That it's there, despite the flaws. Or something like that. (There are complications, and it would be easy and shameful to oversimplify.) The big point is: see this and give it time to settle in and warm up. The three men are deliberately an odd mix, and there are a couple of scenes that are rather too neatly contrived to make a fast point in the narrative, but overall it makes sense and is moving.
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- Jul 31, 2018
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- Also known as
- Sıkı Dostlar
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- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $965,481
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $40,558
- Nov 5, 2017
- Gross worldwide
- $1,872,950
- Runtime2 hours 5 minutes
- Color
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1