Heartbreak Ridge
"Pure entertainment! Eastwood's best performance since Dirty Harry." --Mike Clark, USA TODAY
There are no wars to fight. But Gunnery Sgt. Tom Highway (Clint Eastwood), a dog-faced relic of past wars, still has a lot of fight in him.
Besides playing "Gunny," Eastwood also directs and produces this tale of a Marine Corp lifer who, starting his last tour of duty before retirement, sees the bumpy road his life has taken become more complicated, due to feisty recruits (Mario Van Peebles among them), by-the-book officers and a salty ex-wife (Marsha Mason) to whom he's still attracted. Take the ridge- Heartbreak Ridge- and get a vivid, rough-and-ready entertainment from a top artist in top form.
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Almost wistful. - moviemonger
Marine Gunnery Sergeant Tom Highway has been in the Corps since the Korean War and would like to see some action and a victory before he retires. He requests to be transfered to the unit that he was once busted out of. Upon arriving the commanding officer knows of Highway’s reputation, especially of his lack of respect for his superiors, warns him that he is going to keep an eye on him. Highway’s assigned to train a recon unit which consists mostly of deadbeats. But Highway’s determined to turn them into true marines and they are not exactly pleased with him, at first. And he is also trying to reconnect with his ex-wifeHEARTBREAK RIDGE - zippo
GREAT MOVIE FOR EASTWOOD FANS. EASTWOOD PLAYS A CAREER MARINE WHO IS NEARING THE END OF HIS CAREER BUT IS TASKED WITH TRYING TO TURN MILITARY REJECTS INTO FIGHTING MEN. THE PLATOON HE GETS TRY EVERYTHING TO GET RID OF HIM BUT EASTWOOD WOULD EARN THEIR LOYALITY AND HE GETS THEM TO THE POINT OF BEING THE BEST. WHILE DEALING WITH THE MISFITS ON THE BASE EASTWOOD DEALS WITH HIS OWN LIFE OFF THE BASE TRYING TO GET HIS EX-WIFE TO GIVE HIM ANOTHER CHANCE. GREAT MOVIE AND REALLY WORTH WATCHING.Heartbreak Ridge - APV55555
Clint Eastwood does a marvelous job in his character portrayal of tough hardnosed Sergeant. He has to shape up his undisciplined, inexperienced troops then gets the chance to prove his technics when asked to go into battle. This is a solid entertaining movie. As usual Clint Eastwood can carry a film.
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Almost wistful. - moviemonger
Marine Gunnery Sergeant Tom Highway has been in the Corps since the Korean War and would like to see some action and a victory before he retires. He requests to be transfered to the unit that he was once busted out of. Upon arriving the commanding officer ...HEARTBREAK RIDGE - zippo
GREAT MOVIE FOR EASTWOOD FANS. EASTWOOD PLAYS A CAREER MARINE WHO IS NEARING THE END OF HIS CAREER BUT IS TASKED WITH TRYING TO TURN MILITARY REJECTS INTO FIGHTING MEN. THE PLATOON HE GETS TRY EVERYTHING TO GET RID OF HIM BUT EASTWOOD WOULD EARN THEIR LOYALITY ...Heartbreak Ridge - APV55555
Clint Eastwood does a marvelous job in his character portrayal of tough hardnosed Sergeant. He has to shape up his undisciplined, inexperienced troops then gets the chance to prove his technics when asked to go into battle. This is a solid entertaining movie. ...