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| TriStar Pictures | Release Date: May 8, 1987 |
Starring:
Anjelica Huston, D.B. Sweeney, Dean Stockwell, Dick Anthony Williams, Elias Koteas, James Caan, James Earl Jones, Lonette McKee, Mary Stuart Masterson, Sam Bottoms
Summary:
A Sergeant must deal with his desires to save the lives of young soldiers being sent to Viet Nam. Continuously denied the chance to teach the soldiers about his experiences, he settles for trying to help the son of an old Army buddy.
Gardens of Stone is not a great picture. But it is a good one, made by a visionary director who strives to address film as literature. This is an absorbing companion piece to Coppola's Apocalypse Now, which treats the war in allegorical terms. [12 May 1987, p.1D]
The film is far from being a seamless work of art, but it probably comes closer to the confused attitudes that Americans had toward the Vietnam war than any other film has come, and so its messiness seems honorable.
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