Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

The read

Critics rate it 21 points higher than audiences do. It runs a compact 1h 24m.

Synopsis

Real-life letters written by American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines during the Vietnam War to their families and friends back home. Archive footage of the war and news coverage thereof augment the first-person "narrative" by men and women who were in the war, some of whom did not survive it.

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Key crew

• Bill CouturiéDirector
• Richard DewhurstWriter

Cast

• Ellen BurstynMrs. Stocks (voice)
• Tom Berenger(voice)
• J. Kenneth Campbell(voice)
• Richard Chaves(voice)
• Josh Cruze(voice)
• Willem DafoeElephant Grass (voice)
• Robert De NiroGreat Sewer (voice)
• Brian Dennehy(voice)
• Kevin DillonJack (voice)
• Matt DillonMike (voice)
• Robert Downey Jr.(voice)
• Michael J. FoxRaymond Griffiths (voice)

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