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Heaven and Earth
The story tells of a girl named Lu Lee (Heep Thi Lo), who lives in a small Vietnamese village that is under threat when the war breaks out. They start with horror as a fighter for freedom, where things start to differ with a young mother, a whore at one time, and an American wife. It is that story that expresses the similarity and difference between cultures in wars.
30 July 1974, Penang, Malaysia
28 September 1942, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
5 February 1966, Shanghai, China
24 February 1926, Liverpool, England, UK
27 February 1966, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
24 December 1953, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
20 November 1989, Los Angeles, California, USA
12 September 1960, Washington Heights, New York, USA
October 16, 2004
Overblown, forgettable Oliver Stone epic.
January 01, 2000
Stone has a keen directorial eye, and Heaven and Earth is usually interesting to watch.
October 30, 2001
This is the first time [Stone] has tried to place himself inside a woman's imagination, and that he succeeds so well is due partly...to an extraordinary performance by Hiep Thi Le in the leading role.
November 21, 2004
What Oliver Stone has created is his Mrs. Miniver for the Vietnam era.
January 01, 2000
I found this story moving and at times wrenching...Oliver Stone has made his best film about Vietnam.
June 05, 2004
Mr. Stone tells this tale vigorously, but he has the wrong cinematic vocabulary for his heroine's essentially passive experience.
March 16, 2002
Touches the heart not only as a cross-cultural treasure but as Oliver Stone's most soulful movie.
September 20, 2016
...despite every intention the movie can't quite shake its American male point of view.
November 16, 2001
Heaven has so many themes, ranging from Buddhist spirituality to feminism, it ends up with none.
March 13, 2015
Some of the parts are undeniably gripping; what gets lost are the characters themselves.
October 30, 2001
Heaven and Earth has the epic scope one would expect from a film of this magnitude, but it lacks much of the narrative strength of Stone's first two Vietnamese tales.