Nineteen seventy-eight saw the release of three famous movies dealing with the effects of the Vietnam War: "Coming Home", "The Deer Hunter" and "Who'll Stop the Rain". The last one doesn't actually focus on the war itself, but on some drug-running related to it. This gritty picture portrays a GI (Michael Moriarty) sending some heroin back home with a merchant marine friend (Nick Nolte). When the marine hooks up with the guy's wife (Tuesday Weld), they find themselves on the run from some thugs.
The movie gives one a real feeling of the grimness not only of the war, but in the lives of the people returning home. The whole end scene just might freeze your blood. One thing is that when we watched the movie, my mom said that a lot of the music was changed (originally, the whole movie had Creedence Clearwater songs, and only two of their songs remain on the video).
But aside from that, it's definitely a movie that everyone should see. I understand that it's out of print, but surely it has to come to DVD eventually.
The movie gives one a real feeling of the grimness not only of the war, but in the lives of the people returning home. The whole end scene just might freeze your blood. One thing is that when we watched the movie, my mom said that a lot of the music was changed (originally, the whole movie had Creedence Clearwater songs, and only two of their songs remain on the video).
But aside from that, it's definitely a movie that everyone should see. I understand that it's out of print, but surely it has to come to DVD eventually.