The War Summary
MPAA Rating: PG13
Director: Jon Avnet
Genres: Drama
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Jon_Avnet's The War is set in the rural south and brimming with lessons on social consciousness, much like his previous effort, Fried_Green_Tomatoes (1991). During the summer of 1970 in backwoods Mississippi, Stephen Simmons (Kevin_Costner) is struggling to be a breadwinner for his family while still suffering post-traumatic stress disorder from his service in the Vietnam War. His wife Lois (Mare_Winningham) provides most of the family income. Stephen gets a job in a mine and saves a friend who has been injured, helping him erase his guilt over abandoning another friend during a firefight in Vietnam. Meanwhile, the Simmons children, Stu (Elijah_Wood) and Lidia (Lexi_Randall) are feuding with an even poorer family of neighbors, the Lipnickis, over access to a tree fort that Stu and Lidia built. Mr. Lipnicki (Raynor_Scheine) is drunken and abusive and helps escalate the disagreement into a major battle for the fort. Michael Betzold, Rovi
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