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Taking place in the early 1980s and set in the context of the Vietnam War POW/MIA issue, retired Marine Colonel Jason Rhodes is
obsessed with finding his son Frank, listed as "missing in action" (MIA) since 1972. After 10 years of searching Southeast Asia
and turning up several leads, Rhodes believes that Frank is still alive and being kept in Laos as a prisoner of war.
After petitioning the United States government for help, but receiving none, Colonel Rhodes brings together a disparate group
of Vietnam War veterans, including some who were a part of Frank's platoon: Wilkes, a "tunnel rat" who suffers from PTSD; "Blaster",
a demolitions expert; and "Sailor", a crazed, yet loyal machine gunner. Additionally, two helicopter pilot acquaintances of Rhodes,
Distinguished Flying Cross recipient Johnson and Charts, join the group. A young, former Force Recon Marine Kevin Scott joins
the team and later turns out to be the son of a pilot who was shot down in Vietnam and listed as MIA.
With the financial backing of good friend and rich oil businessman McGregor, whose son served in Frank's platoon and is also listed
among the missing, the men train near Galveston, Texas in preparation to undertake a rescue mission at a remote POW camp in Laos.
As the team arrives in Southeast Asia, the CIA, fearing an international crisis from Rhodes' actions, intercepts him in Bangkok
and confiscates his weapons and equipment. Still determined to rescue their comrades, the team members put together their expense
money given to them by McGregor to purchase replacement weapons and supplies. Rhodes contacts an acquaintance, deposed local drug
baron Jiang, who joins the expedition with his two daughters Lai Fun and Mai Lin. Jiang manages to supply them with outdated but
capable World War II-era weapons. In the course of the expedition, Charts gradually forms a relationship with Lai Fun.
Near the Laotian border, the group is attacked by a border patrol unit and Mai Lin is killed. Later, the group divides: Rhodes
leads Charts, Sailor, Johnson and Lai Fun as the "air team" to a helicopter compound to secure escape transportation, while
Jiang, Blaster, Scott and Wilkes scout out the prison camp as the "ground team." The ground team later discovers four Americans
among the prisoners, but are unable to ascertain Frank's whereabouts.
The teams spend the night preparing before commencing the attack the next morning. In a heated battle, they manage to spring the
prisoners, among them McGregor's son, but Frank is not among them. Blaster, Sailor and Jiang are killed in the process. From
McGregor's son, Rhodes learns that Frank became ill soon after his capture and died, despite McGregor's son's best efforts. It
is revealed that Frank was the soldier who stopped to carry a wounded McGregor during the platoon's evacuation to the helicopters
in Vietnam in 1972 (as seen in the opening scene), but they were left behind as the helicopter carrying Blaster, Sailor and Wilkes
departed the hot landing zone. Stateside, the group is joyously welcomed by their families with media attention and fanfare. Rhodes
finds that in learning the fate of his son, he has gained some closure for his wife and himself.
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Gene Hackman, Fred Ward, Patrick Swayze, Reb Brown, Tim Thomerson, Robert Stack
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Director: Ted Kotcheff
Producers: David Brown, Michael Tolkin, Nick Wechsler
Released - December 16, 1983
Length - 105 minutes
Music Composer: James Horner
Movie Distributed by Fine Line Features
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