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Heartbreak Ridge
| Rating: | R |
| Genre: | Action/Adventure |
| Release Date: | January 1, 1986 |
| Running time: | 130 minutes |
| Cast: | Clint Eastwood, Marsha Mason, Mario Van Peebles |
| Director: | Clint Eastwood |
Description: Having spent much of his directorial career emulating Don Siegel and John Ford, Clint Eastwood borrows a page from the catalogue of Sam Fuller in Heartbreak Ridge. Eastwood casts himself as an old-fashioned Marine Corps sergeant who is out of step with the new-fashioned military. He returns to his old outfit as a gunnery sergeant, where he runs afoul of 1980s-style superior officers to whom the words Gung Ho are foolish anachronisms. But through his tough tutelage, Eastwood's lackadaisical platoon is whipped into a first-rate fighting machine, favoring teamwork over such New Age gobbledygook as self-fulfillment. Eastwood's men prove their mettle during the invasion of Grenada.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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