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1983. USA. Directed by Robert Altman. Screenplay by David Rabe, from his play. With Matthew Modine, Michael Wright, Mitchell Lichtenstein, David Alan Grier. Altman’s powerful adaptation of Rabe’s play revolves around four soldiers awaiting deployment to Vietnam. Suspicions of homosexuality spark heated words and antics in the barracks, as tensions and fears play out over the course of a frenzied evening. The claustrophobic one-room set stands in for postwar American society, where everything from highways to the draft brought people of different backgrounds together more than ever before—not always with harmonious results. 118 min.