Heartbreak Ridge (1986)

Directed by

Clint Eastwood

Genre

war film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 10m

Rated

R

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 1,137 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A U.S. Marine nearing retirement takes over a lazy platoon and whips them into shape. He leads his newly trained team during the invasion of Grenada.

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What happens

Heartbreak Ridge is a 1986 American war film directed, produced by, and starring Clint Eastwood. The film co-stars Marsha Mason, Everett McGill, and Mario Van Peebles, and was released in the United States on December 5, 1986. The story centers on a U.S. Marine nearing retirement who gets a platoon of undisciplined Marines into shape and leads them during the American invasion of Grenada in 1983. The title comes from the Battle of Heartbreak Ridge in the Korean War, in which Eastwood's character had been awarded the Medal of Honor. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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