I put the
icon here because this television film starring Eric Roberts is an emotional and cathartic journey concerning the efforts of Jan C. Scruggs and his colleagues to build a memorial to honor the Vietnam War veterans. Roberts gives a great performance as Scruggs and if you don't cry in the last fifteen minutes of this film, you have no soul. From the time that a stone worker named Sue (Alley Mills) finds her baby brother's name on the memorial tablet and cries her heart out, saying "That name....that's my brother....my baby brother....." the tears start flowing and they don't stop until the final haunting shot of the film: the War Memorial lit by golden sunlight and the statue of a soldier seen reflected in the setting sun.
Yowza...just writing about this makes me tear up.
