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Uncommon Valor is a 1983 American action war film directed by Ted Kotcheff and starring Gene Hackman, Fred Ward, Reb Brown, Randall "Tex" Cobb, Robert Stack, Patrick Swayze, Harold Sylvester and Tim Thomerson. Hackman plays a former U.S. Marine colonel, who puts together a rag-tag team to rescue his son, who he believes is among those still held in Laos after the Vietnam War. The film was released on December 16,…
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In 1980s America under Reagan took new, more confident and combative stance toward world affairs, which was difficult to reconcile with still unhealed traumas of recent humiliating defeat in Vietnam. Hollywood tried to solve this problem with action films that symbolically re-fought Vietnam War, only with different outcome. The fictional plots were inspired by the very real and emotional issue related to the conflic…More
