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DISABILITY |
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Wheelchair Mental War trauma |
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Megs (De
Niro) turns up unexpectedly on the doorstep of a |
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mate, Dave
(Ed Harris) he was in Vietnam with. Dave's |
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sister,
Martha, (Kathy Baker) answers the door and he tells |
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her he and
her brother are going fishing. But a date was |
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never fixed
for this and her brother is in bed sleeping off a |
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Megs fancies
Martha but his mission is to save Dave. Megs |
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gives the
impression that saving Dave is urgent but he's |
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waited 15
years and has only come from the other side of |
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The film is
set in Connecticut. |
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When Dave
comes out of his alcoholic stupor he insists to |
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his sister
that Megs is no friend, he's a crazy man. He tells |
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her that
when Megs came home from Vietnam he was always |
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getting into
fights and was on the point of being put away. |
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Dave doesn't
want his sister to go out with him saying he's |
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Megs and
Dave go to a group meeting of vets where men |
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express
themselves but Dave won't stay. The meetings are |
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organised by
a black vet in a wheelchair. |
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This is a
film about a real world inhabited by real people very |
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well played
by the de Niro, Harris and Baker. We do learn |
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about these
people's lives and we begin to understand. |
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Notes
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