Alamo Bay (1985)

Directed by

Louis Malle

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 38m

Rated

R

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 27 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Vietnam veteran returns to his Texas bay hometown and clashes with Vietnamese immigrants who move there. The conflict escalates as the community gets divided.

tensegrittysomberemotionalbleakslow-burnsocially chargedconflict-driven

What happens

Alamo Bay is a 1985 American drama film about a Vietnam veteran who clashes with Vietnamese immigrants who move to his Texas bay hometown. The film was directed by Louis Malle, and stars Amy Madigan and Ed Harris. Future Texas A&M and Dallas Cowboys linebacker Dat Nguyen, who was age 9 at the time, has a small role as a Little League ballplayer. The film's soundtrack, composed and recorded by the artist Ry Cooder, was released as an album Music From the Motion Picture "Alamo Bay" in the same year, and its title track "Theme from Alamo Bay" can be also found on Music by Ry Cooder, a compilation album of Cooder's soundtracks from movies released between 1980 and 1993. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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