Dogfight (film)
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| Dogfight | |
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 The movie cover for Dogfight. |
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| Directed by | Nancy Savoca |
| Produced by | Richard Guay Peter Newman |
| Written by | Bob Comfort |
| Starring | River Phoenix, Lili Taylor |
| Music by | Sarah Class Mason Daring |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Release date(s) | September 13, 1991 |
| Running time | 89/94 min. |
| Language | English |
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Dogfight (1991) is a film set in San Francisco, California, during the Vietnam War (1963 – 1974), and stars River Phoenix and Lili Taylor.
It explores the love between a young marine, Eddie Birdlace, on his way to Vietnam, and a young woman, Rose Fenny. Both lovers are portrayed as innocent and inexperienced: Birdlace is angry and inept, and Fenny is idealistic but unsophisticated.
The "dogfight" refers to an "ugly date" contest among a group of men in which they each go out and find the ugliest female that they can, and persuade her to come to go to a 'party'. At the party the guy with the ugliest date wins.
The film itself was released in only two US cinemas and went straight-to-video in Europe.
The film's soundtrack featured a number of prominent 1960s artists, including Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger and Melvina Reynolds.
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