Status
Released
Release
1988
Runtime
1h 34m
A Vietnam veteran has to fight peacefully with words once more when the Air Force wants to expropriate his ranch for the construction of an air base.
30 Cast Members
Tommy Lee Jones
Bud Whitman
Dee Wallace
Annie Whitman
Terry O'Quinn
Connie Priest
Pat Hingle
Judge Munson
Barry Corbin
Gil
Richard Anderson
Maj. Walters
Ned Romero
Doc
Natalie Gregory
Gillian
Stephen Joyce
Lyman Ward
Michael Paul Chan
Eliot
Kent Williams
James Lashly
Ben Johnson
Vern Whitman
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Rounder
Annie O'Donnell
Mrs. Fourchette
Michael Flynn
Brewer
Tip Boxell
Capt. Wister
Eric Hart
Gil Worthy
John Daryl
Kyle
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