When a young soldier in Vietnam gets dumped by his girlfriend back home, he and his best friend decide to go AWOL and return to the States to win her back.When a young soldier in Vietnam gets dumped by his girlfriend back home, he and his best friend decide to go AWOL and return to the States to win her back.When a young soldier in Vietnam gets dumped by his girlfriend back home, he and his best friend decide to go AWOL and return to the States to win her back.
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- (as Chris Lowell)
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- TriviaTeresa Palmer also worked together with Liam Hemsworth 's brother Luke Hemsworth. Luke and Teresa are real life friends
- GoofsThe Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok in the movie did not become operational until 1998, 29 years after Apollo 11 being launched. The airport during the Vietnam war period was Kai Tak airport, it was closed and replaced by the new Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok.
- Quotes
Mickey Wright: There we are, me and Miss Ohio, about a mile high, looking down on all these incredible lights, full moon above us, a crowd of people below.
Sanchez: Yeah, keep goin'...
Mickey Wright: She looks into my eyes and there's this really heavy vibe going on. Next thing I know the sash comes off, she's unzipping her dress, and her hands are all over me - I mean like *all* over.
Burns: That's my boy!
Franklin: I've been on the Ferris wheel back home a thousand times. How come nothing like that ever happened to me?
Mickey Wright: Oh, sure it did. It was your *own* hands all over you.
- SoundtracksSpirit In The Sky
Written and Performed by Norman Greenbaum
Copyright 1970 Great Honesty Music
Courtesy of Transtone Productions
This movie is like watching the stocks exchange, where it sometimes goes up and down, and then it falls so far down that it can't get back up again. It takes place sometime during the first moon landing in 1969, during which was also when Americans were still fighting in the Vietnam war. Anyways, the set up has army soldier, Dalton Joiner (Austin Stowell) having a keen eye on some very thin wire, and was admired for it by former soldier, Mickey Wright (Liam Hemsworth). By the time this particular regimen group got to Hong Kong for a week of 'R&R', 'rest and recuperation', 'rest and relaxation' or 'rest and recreation', Dalton decides to use his by flying back to a small town in the United States to see his girlfriend, Jane (Aimee Teegarden). And because, Mickey has already built a rapport with him, he decides to go with him. Anyways, a portion of this film centers on a silly white lie, since the group of people Dalton and Mickey are living with are protestors against the Vietnam war. And it was also during at this point I start to role my eyes, and start to cringe at some scenes just because the movie lectures us, like the Vietnam War was still happening as viewers are watching it. So it's like, why are we going back to listen to opinions about it like it's still happening.
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $19,684
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,815
- Mar 24, 2013
- Gross worldwide
- $641,929