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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Like The Deer Hunter, it treats Vietnam’s damage as an intimate, lasting rupture in ordinary American lives, with a patient, compassionate focus on veterans and the people struggling to reach them.
02
Why this pick
Its unhurried return-home structure and attention to friendship, marriage, work, and invisible wounds closely anticipate the emotional breadth of The Deer Hunter.
03
Why this pick
A grave, restrained portrait of war’s aftermath, it shares The Deer Hunter’s sense that violence continues to reshape families and communities long after soldiers come home.
04
Why this pick
This austere wartime drama matches Cimino’s moral seriousness and emotional intensity, using extreme pressure to examine loyalty, fear, and what survives inside damaged men.
05
Why this pick
Cimino again combines immersive community detail, grand landscapes, melancholy, and devastating violence; it has The Deer Hunter’s expansive, mournful attention to a world coming apart.
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01 / THE STORY
A group of working-class friends decide to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they imagined. All three are different men upon their return.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Michael Vronsky
Steven Pushkov
Nikanor "Nick" Chevotarevich
Stan
Linda
John
Bridesmaid
Linda's Father
