In Country is a 1989 American drama film produced and directed by Norman Jewison, starring Bruce Willis and Emily Lloyd. The screenplay by Frank Pierson and Cynthia Cidre was based on the novel by Bobbie Ann Mason. The original music score was composed by James Horner. Willis earned a best supporting actor Golden Globe nomination for his role. Recent high school graduate Samantha Hughes, 17, lives in fictional Hopewell, Kentucky with her uncle Emmett Smith, a laid-back Vietnam veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder. Samantha's father, Dwayne, was killed in Vietnam at 21 after marrying... and impregnating Samantha's mother, Irene. Samantha finds some old photographs, medals, and letters of her father, and becomes obsessed with finding out more about him. Irene, who has moved to Lexington, Kentucky with her second husband, wants Samantha to move in with them and go to college. But Samantha would rather stay with Emmett and try to find out more about her father. Her mother is no help, as she tells Samantha, "Honey, I married him a month before he left for the war. He was 19. I hardly even remember him.
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| Release date: | September 29, 1989 |
| Directed by: | Norman Jewison |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 120 Minutes |
| Producer: | Norman Jewison, Richard A. Roth |
| Editor: | Antony Gibbs, Lou Lombardo |
| Music by: | James Horner |
| Cinematography: | Russell Boyd |
| Screenplay by: | Frank R. Pierson, Cynthia Cidre |
| Adapted from: | In Country |