Heartbreak Ridge

Clint Eastwood (1986)

124min

15 Certificate

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by Alan Jones

Clint Eastwood struts his stuff here as a grizzled gunnery sergeant training rookie soldiers. The movie recycles many clichés of the genre, from the misfit recruit gaining his dignity to the old, die-hard veteran butting heads with the modern-thinking major. There's a by-the-numbers feel to it all, but Eastwood is the main reason to watch, as he whips the troops into shape in readiness for the invasion of Grenada. It's a movie the US Department of Defense openly condemned - "drill sergeants are not permitted by regulations to swear at recruits".

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Cast & Crew

Sergeant Thomas Highway Clint Eastwood

Aggie Marsha Mason

Major Powers Everett McGill

Sergeant Webster Moses Gunn

Little Mary Eileen Heckart

Roy Jennings Bo Svenson

Lieutenant Ring Boyd Gaines

"Stitch" Jones Mario Van Peebles

Master Sergeant Choozoo Arlen Dean Snyder

Fragetti Vincent Irizarry

Aponte Ramon Franco

Profile Tom Villard

Director Clint Eastwood

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Language: EnglishColourTheatrical distributor: Columbia-Cannon-WarnerGuidance: Violence, swearing, nudity.Available on: video, DVD and Blu-ray

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