Heaven & Earth

IMDb link: 0107096
IMDb rating: 6.8 (16,105 votes)
Genres: Action, Drama, Biography, War, History
Director: Tommy Lee Jones, Oliver Stone, Joan Chen
Cast: Hiep Thi Le, Haing S. Ngor, Bussaro Sanruck, Supak Pititam and others

Release date: 7 Jan 1994
Release year: 1993
Runtime: 140 minutes
Country: France, United States
Keywords: rape, female protagonist, vietnam, culture clash, immigrant, survival, vietnamese american, vietnamese woman, domestic violence, war crime

Plot:

Fleeing the violence of the Viet Cong, Le Ly leaves her farming village with her mother for Saigon. After disgracing herself by becoming pregnant with her new master's child, she moves in with her sister and, through hustling the American troops, meets up with Steve Butler. They become lovers and, encouraged by his promises, she agrees to return with him to the strange but wonderful land of "America".

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