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Heartbreak Ridge (1986)

★ 6.9 · 1,116 ratings on TMDB

...the scars run deep.

Heartbreak Ridge poster★ 6.9

A hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude.

DirectorClint Eastwood
CastArlen Dean Snyder, Bo Svenson, Boyd Gaines, Clint Eastwood, Eileen Heckart, Everett McGill
GenresDrama, War
The emergence reading

Heartbreak Ridge keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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