Heartbreak Ridge (1986)

Clint Eastwood plays tough-as-nails marine sergeant Tom Highway in HEARTBREAK RIDGE. Highway is tough, but he's got his work cut out for him when he's assigned to whip a platoon of unruly new Marines into shape. He faces his own, often humorous battles with his ex-wife (Marsha Mason) and with his by-the-book commanding officers but still manages to teach his troops discipline and combat tactics. Eventually, their feelings toward him shift from resentment to respect, and all his lessons are put to use when the Grenada invasion unexpectedly brings the platoon into battle.

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Sergeant Tom Highway is zijn hele leven bij de marine geweest. Hij diende in Korea en Vietnam en werd daarvoor hoog onderscheiden. Tegenwoordig houdt hij zich bezig met waar hij het beste in is: het trainen en opleiden van jongeren. In zijn nadagen komt Tom oude vrienden en relaties tegen, maar loopt tevens tegen nieuwe problemen aan. Tom probeert grip te krijgen op het persoonlijk falen in zijn huwelijk en doet zijn best om zijn relatie met zijn ex-vrouw Aggie weer nieuw leven in te blazen.

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Having spent much of his directorial career emulating Don Siegel and John Ford, Clint Eastwood borrows a page from the catalogue of Sam Fuller in Heartbreak Ridge. Eastwood casts himself as an old-fashioned Marine Corps sergeant who is out of step with the new-fashioned military. He returns to his old outfit as a gunnery sergeant, where he runs afoul of 1980s-style superior officers to whom the words "Gung Ho" are foolish anachronisms. But through his tough tutelage, Eastwood's lackadaisical platoon is whipped into a first-rate fighting machine, favoring teamwork over such New Age gobbledygook as "self-fulfillmen...
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t." Eastwood's men prove their mettle during the invasion of Grenada.
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