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Yesterday (1981)

Yesterday poster
Directed by
Larry Kent
Genre
drama film, romance film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 34m
Rated
16
Rating
7.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young soldier is badly injured in the Vietnam War. He decides to let his former girlfriend think he is dead so she does not have to suffer with him.

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What happens

Yesterday (also released, in the US, as Scoring and This Time Forever and, in Canada, as Gabrielle and The Victory) is a 1981 Canadian drama film directed by Larry Kent (as Lawrence I. Kent) and starring Vincent Van Patten and Claire Pimparé. It is a love story of a young soldier maimed in Vietnam, who allows his former girlfriend to believe he is dead to spare her anguish. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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