Rolling Thunder is a 1977 film starring William Devane and Tommy Lee Jones. The film was directed by John Flynn. The screenplay was by Paul Schrader and Heywood Gould. In 1973, Major Charles Rane returning home to a small Texas town with his friend, Sergeant First Class Johnny Vohden , after spending seven years as a POW in Hanoi. However, he finds a home very different from the one he left. His wife Janet , his son Mark , and local policeman Cliff are waiting to drive him home. On his first night home, Rane's son Mark asks him: "Do you remember what I looked like as a baby?" To which Rane... replies: "Sure I do, every last detail." However, Rane soon realizes that his son doesn't remember him. Additionally, Cliff seems pretty familiar with Rane's wife and child. His wife admits that she has become engaged to Cliff and has no plans to break it off, despite still having feelings for Rane. Rane stoically accepts this, but privately reacts by self-imposing the same institutionalized daily regime he had in captivity.
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| Release date: | 1977 |
| Directed by: | John Flynn |
| Runtime: | 95 Minutes |
| Producer: | Lawrence Gordon |
| Editor: | Frank P. Keller |
| Screenplay by: | Paul Schrader, Heywood Gould |