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Heartbreak Ridge

Year:
Duration:
130 min
Genres:
Action | Comedy | Drama | War
IMDB rate:
6.8
Director:
Clint Eastwood
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 2 wins
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1986-12-05
Filming Locations: Santa Clarita, California, USA
Earnings
Budget: $15,000,000
Gross: $42,724,017 (USA)$79,000,000 (Worldwide)
Cast
Actor
Character
Clint Eastwood
Highway
Marsha Mason
Aggie
Everett McGill
Major Powers
Moses Gunn
Sgt. Webster
Eileen Heckart
Little Mary
Bo Svenson
Roy Jennings
Boyd Gaines
Lieutenant Ring
Mario Van Peebles
Stitch
Arlen Dean Snyder
Choozoo
Vincent Irizarry
Fragetti
Ramón Franco
Aponte (as Ramon Franco)
Tom Villard
Profile
Mike Gomez
Quinones
Rodney Hill
Collins
Peter Koch
'Swede' Johanson
Richard Venture
Colonel Meyers
Peter Jason
Major Devin
J.C. Quinn
Quartermaster Sgt.
John Eames
Judge Zane
Thom Sharp
Emcee
John Gallagher
Emcee (as Jack Gallagher)
John Hostetter
Reese
Holly Shelton-Foy
Sarita Dwayne
Nicholas Worth
Jail Binger
Timothy Fall
Kid in Jail
Jon Pennell
Jail Crier
Trish Garland
Woman Marine Officer
Dutch Mann
Bar Tough Guy
Darwyn Swalve
Bar Tough Guy
Christopher Michael
Marine (as Christopher Lee Michael)
Alex M. Bello
Marine
Steve Halsey
Bus Driver
John Sasse
Bus Driver
Annie O'Donnell
Telephone Operator
Elizabeth Ruscio
Waitress
Lloyd Nelson
Deputy
John H. Brewer
Sgt. Major in Court (as Sgt. Maj. John H. Brewer)
Michael Maurer
Bouncer in Bar
Tom Ellison
Marine Corporal
Russell Appling
Dock Marine (uncredited)
Tom Willett
Bus Passenger (uncredited)
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Trivia
First war film for Clint Eastwood since Kelly's Heroes (1970), a gap of around sixteen years.
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The sequence involving the bulldozer is based on a real event. The officer who actually did what Eastwood portrays was John Abizaid, at the time a Captain and a Ranger Company Commander. Abizaid recently retired as the Commander In Chief of Central Command, in charge of all U.S. forces in Iraq, Afghanistan and the rest of the Middle East.
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In-Joke: During the film, Mario Van Peebles wears a T-shirt featuring a picture of the character Sweetback from Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971). Mario played Young Sweetback in the movie, which was made by Melvin Van Peebles, Mario's father.
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Goofs
In the opening shot, you can see the shadow of the helicopter that is holding the camera as it circles the prison.
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The 22nd Marine Amphibious Unit (MAU) is based out of Camp LeJeune, North Carolina. Most of the training scenes (pre-invasion) were filmed at Camp Pendleton, California.
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When Highway is in a bar near the beginning of the movie, he watches a performance of "the Ayatollah of Rock & Rollah". However the "Ayatollah", whose singing is amplified, doesn't appear to have a microphone.
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Quotes
Lieutenant M.R. Ring: [removing a staple from a bundle of reports] Gunny, did you know that I was Platoon Leader in my ROTC class in college?
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Swede Johanson: I'm gonna rip yer head off and shit down yer neck.
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Highway: [to Corporal Jones after leaving Aponte's house] If you pull another shithead stunt like that again, the only thing that'll beat you to the brig is the headlights on the ambulance you'll be riding in.
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Faq
Q
Could any USMC recon platoon in the 80's really have been so messed up and undisciplined?
A
Yes and no. It stretches credibility to think that an entire squad of recon Marines who are lacking an effective staff NCO to lead them would dare to have become so reckless and undisciplined in such a short time. Even without the leadership of a staff NCO who would be in pay grades E-6 through E-9, we would figure that the platoon leader being a 2nd or 1st lieutenant would have assigned a staff noncommissioned officer on an interim basis, at least until a permanent staff NCO could be assigned to take charge. So in essence this part of the script took a lot of liberties to create entertaining drama and to set up the impending conflict between Gun. Sgt. Tom Highway and his new recon unit of reckless and undisciplined Marines. Of course the unit got so reckless during the lull of peacetime and without being deployed to fight any real enemy so then we can imagine that they got so out of line due to the ongoing boredom of their situation. Plus nobody was available to take charge of them until they got Gunny Highway to take command.
Q
Why didn't Highway let the MPs arrest Swede after he assaulted Highway?
A
Highway knew that Swede let himself be influenced negatively & be used by the other guys in his platoon. Highway probably sensed that Swede was a much better Marine & not simply a muscle-bound thug & was giving him an opportunity to shape up & "become a Marine".Also, Swede's quite plainly the biggest guy in the platoon & Highway knew he'd be needed if they suddenly had to go into combat. We later see that Swede is the member of the platoon charged with carrying the M60 machine gun, a large & heavy weapon with a lot of firepower. If Swede wound up in the brig (military jail), then the platoon would be short an important member in combat & possibly less effective.
Q
Isn't RECON considered an elite Marine?
A
It was when I was in the "Crotch", mid to late 60's, my brother prior to that, my dad the 20's, the real old corp. Like Ebert points out, we've seen this in dozens of tough guy war films. Some of the scenes work but what I know is that to become a Marine Corps officer is every bit as hard a the enlisted mans training. Casting the young Lt. as a loose wuss was a huge technical mistake, can't believe it, I never saw any officer that was a candy ass; and this elite group of recon without disipline is really hard to fathom. To get to be in Recon is tantamout to wanting to be in todays more popular and recognized Navy Seals. Those grunts that we're defiant of authority would have got some retraining in a Navy Brig....
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