Heartbreak Ridge

Theatrical Release Date: 1986 12 05 (USA)

UPC: 883929107742

Studio: Warner Home Video

MPAA Rating: R   Contains:[Brief Nudity, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Language, War Violence]

Summary: 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-fulfillment." Eastwood's men prove their mettle during the invasion of Grenada. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Category: Drama

Awards: Best Sound – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Sound – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Sound – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Sound – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

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Heartbreak Ridge

Format: Digital Video Disc (DVD)

Release Date: 06/01/2010

Audio: DS Dolby Surround (4.0), DD2 Dolby Digital Stereo

Runtime: 130 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Disc #1 -- Heartbreak Ridge
1. Credits [3:47]
2. Behind Bars [2:50]
3. Last Chance [1:42]
4. Carful What You Wish For [3:02]
5. Stitch Jones [6:39]
6. Relic Raporting [5:54]
7. Recon Platoon [3:52]
8. Little Mary [1:53]
9. Palace Inn [1:34]
10. Aggie [2:13]
11. Hit the Road [2:42]
12. Make Like Marines [4:22]
13. Shaping Recon up [4:27]
14. Recon Rat-a-Tat and Rap [1:31]
15. Firing Range [4:37]
16. Swede [2:32]
17. That Bad? [1:55]
18. Ambushing Powers [5:15]
19. The Major Burns [2:07]
20. On Alert [4:57]
21. The Aponte Fund [1:54]
22. Where Things Went Wrong [5:10]
23. Jailmates [2:00]
24. The Not Knowing [2:39]
25. How Did They Know? [2:13]
26. Recon Vs. 1st Platoon [4:30]
27. Gunny Vs. Powers [1:46]
28. Webster's Visit [3:11]
29. Open House [4:24]
30. Going to War [3:45]
31. First blood - and a Cuban [2:58]
32. Across the Bridge [3:50]
33. On Campus [3:21]
34. Long-Distance Call [5:07]
35. Taking the Hill [5:56]
36. Semper Fi [2:12]
37. Welcome Home [3:20]
38. End Credits [3:24]

Michael Costello

Clint Eastwood takes the old plot about the tough Marine drill sergeant trying to whip a bunch of new recruits into shape and manages to inject some life into it. He stars as Sgt. Tom Highway, a misanthropic misfit who has sacrificed his wife, family, friends, and everything else to his life in the Corps. Appropriately enough, he's assigned to shape up a platoon of young misfits and bad-asses from his old outfit. Somewhat bending genre conventions, Eastwood has given the film an elegiac undercurrent, as the fifty-plus warrior reviews his past screw-ups with his ex-wife. Of course, this is counterpointed by a number of scenes of heavy-duty bone-crunching as the old man shows his young troops that he's not about to retire any time soon. The heroic invasion of Grenada in the film's conclusion is something of a disappointment since the director, perhaps not surprisingly, has chosen to play it straight. Eastwood's direction is vigorous and terse, and the script by former Marine James Carabatsos is a nonstop virtuoso display of some of the most creative profanity to be heard in a motion picture. Among the cast, Marsha Mason and Mario Van Peebles do notable work. ~ Michael Costello, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Christopher Michael  Actor 
J.C. Quinn  Actor 
Thom Sharp  Actor 
John Hostetter  Actor 
Annie O'Donnell  Actor 
Darwyn Swalve  Actor 
Peter Jason  Actor 
Rebecca Perle  Actor 
Elizabeth Ruscio  Actor 
Michael Maurer  Actor 
Lloyd Nelson  Actor 
Richard Venture  Actor 
Dutch Mann  Actor 
Begonia Plaza  Actor 
Nicholas Worth  Actor 
Jim Carabatsos  Screenwriter 
Clint Eastwood  Director 
Clint Eastwood  Producer 
Fritz Manes  Executive Producer 
Lennie Niehaus  Composer (Music Score) 
Joseph C. Stinson  Screenwriter 
Clint Eastwood  Actor 
Marsha Mason  Actor 
Everett McGill  Actor 
Moses Gunn  Actor 
Eileen Heckart  Actor 
Bo Svenson  Actor 
Boyd Gaines  Actor 
Mario Van Peebles  Actor 
Arlen Dean Snyder  Actor 
Vincent Irizarry  Actor 
Ramon Franco  Actor 
Tom Villard  Actor 
Mike Gomez  Actor 
Rodney Hill  Actor 
Pete Koch  Actor 

Country: USA