i have never hear of this film and only get it because i be a martin sheen fan . now i be stun a to why it do not receive the praise and recognition that it truly deserves . the four character all make you feel for them and the father try to assert his authority and the mother still cling to traditional family value and both try to keep up appearance despite the total fragmentation of their family and the daughter want her own life and the son haunt by his experience in vietnam . one felt that this be a scenario that must have be play out in thousand of ordinary family after vietnam . emilio estevez a jeremy be superb totally unhinge by his war experience which none of his family could relate to . the screen chemistry between him and his real life father martin sheen be amaze . and there be time when emilio anguish face be so like martin in apocalypse now . i feel sure that just a martin have count apocalype a one of his best film and emilio will count this one a one of his best too . the scene with the gun be totally mind blowing and a all the emotion be there on the family face . brilliant acting by estevez and sheen and kathy bates . i watch the film for the first time last night and today the lead story in the news be about a gulf war veteran who have shoot several member of his family . how many more young men be go to have their life destroy by war .