Starring
Tommy Lee Jones, Joan Chen, Hiep Thi Le

Following Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July Oliver Stone completed his Vietnam War trilogy with this heartfelt story of the war as seen through the eyes of a Vietnamese woman.

In the village of Ky La in central Vietnam during the 1950s, Phung Le Ly (Hiep Thi Le) is a peasant girl tending the rice paddies with her mother (Joan Chen), while being lectured on various aspects of life by her father (Haing Ngor). As Le Ly grows, she and her village become caught between American-backed South Vietnamese government troops and the Viet Cong.

Le Ly is tortured by one side and raped by the other before leaving Ky La for Saigon and a life as a prostitute. There she meets Sgt. Steve Butler (Tommy Lee Jones), a lonely and kindly American GI who's looking for someone to settle down with. The pair marry and leave Vietnam for San Diego.

Directed by
Oliver Stone