Gardens of Stone
(1987)
★ 6.2 IMDb · 131 votes
Year: 1987
Runtime: 111 мин
Country: United States of America
Director: Фрэнсис Форд Коппола
Cast: Джеймс Каан, Анжелика Хьюстон, Джеймс Эрл Джонс, Д.Б. Суини, Дин Стоквелл, Мэри Мастерсон, Dick Anthony Williams, Lonette McKee, Сэм Боттомс, Элиас Котеас
Plot
At Arlington National Cemetery during the Vietnam era, veteran sergeant Clell Hazard trains young soldiers while mourning those lost in combat. Unable to return to war himself, he mentors Jackie Willow—the idealistic son of a fallen comrade—hoping to prepare him for the realities of Vietnam and the cost of duty.
In the late 60s, during the Vietnam War, the idealistic soldier Jackie Willow arrives at Fort Myer expecting to go to the Academy and then to the Vietnam War. Jackie is the son of a veteran sergeant and soon he becomes the protégé of the former friends of his father, Sergeant Clell Hazard and Sergeant Major 'Goody' Nelson. Jackie is promoted and gets married with his childhood friend Rachel Feld, to recommend Jackie to the Academy. He is promoted to lieutenant and asks to go to the Vietnam, returning to the Arlington National Cemetery.