Four young recruits about to be sent to Vietnam confront their prejudicial feelings toward one another when it's learned one of them is gay.
Acting
Michael Wright's Carlyle—unpredictable, magnetic, heartbreaking.
Direction
Altman's wandering camera finds cruelty in cramped corners.
Writing
Rabe's stage dialogue crackles with threat and buried longing.
Director
Robert Altman
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