China Beach
1988, Series, 120 min, Drama, History, War, English, United States, MoviePedia score 71
Reflections of the way life used to be.
Dateline: November 1967. Within klicks of Danang, Vietnam, sits a U.S. Army base, bar and hospital on China Beach filled with wounded soldiers and one very lovely but damaged Army Nurse Colleen McMurphy. Many heroes, dead and alive, try to make sense of life and death in between bourbon, bullets and battles.
Directed by Mimi Leder, John Sacret Young, Christopher Leitch, Michael Fresco, Fred Gerber, Michael Ray Rhodes, Rod Holcomb, Steve Dubin, Michael Katleman, Kevin Hooks, Dan Lerner, Bethany Rooney, Peter Medak, Sharron Miller, David Burton Morris, Michael Toshiyuki Uno, Neema Barnette, Robert Ginty, Diane Keaton, David Soul, Gary Sinise
Cast
- Dana Delany as Colleen McMurphy
- Marg Helgenberger as K.C. Koloski
- Brian Wimmer as Cpl. Boonie Lanier
- Michael Boatman as Pvt. Samuel Beckett
- Robert Picardo as Dr. Dick Richard
- Concetta Tomei as Maj. Lila Garreau
- Jeff Kober as Sgt. Evan 'Dodger' Winslow
- Nancy Giles as Pvt. Frankie Bunsen
- Troy Evans as Air Force Sergeant at Travis
- Megan Gallagher as Amn. Wayloo Marie Holmes
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