

147 minutes
11/9/1980
In March 1970, a U.S. Army officer arrived at the Iowa farm of Peg and Gene Mullen and informed them that their son Michael had been killed in Vietnam by "friendly fire." Their determined attempts to learn more about the circumstances of their son's death are the subject of this true account film.

Carol Burnett
as Peg Mullen

Ned Beatty
as Gene Mullen

Dennis Erdman
as Michael E. Mullen

Sherry Hursey
as Patricia Mullen

Timothy Hutton
as John Mullen
Fanny Spiess
as Mary Mullen

Steve Bonino
as Cactus

Henry Brown
Cosie Costa

Hilly Hicks
as Willis Huddleston

John Hillner

Kevin Hooks
as Polk

David Keith
as Leroy Hamilton
Mark Montgomery

Dan Shor
as Prince

Mark L. Taylor
as Capt. Bannock

Bernard Behrens
as Dietrich

Jorge Cervera Jr.
Woody Eney

William Jordan
as Col. Byron Schindler
Joe Lowry

Joseph G. Medalis

Jack Rader
as Sgt. Fitzgerald

Vernon Weddle
as Col. Georgi

Phillip R. Allen
as Ralph Jenner

Nicolas Coster
as Carl

Charles Cyphers
as Tom Loomis

Macon McCalman

Sierra Pecheur
as Mrs. Hamilton

Ford Rainey
as Mr. Hamilton
Jenny Sullivan
as Mrs. Bryan
Robert Wahler
as Alan Hulting

Sam Waterston
as C.D.B. Bryan

Norman Bartold

William Bogert
Michael Bond
Robert Broyles
Michael Flanagan
as Father Shimon

Mary Gregory

Jerry Hardin

Warren Munson

Wyatt Knight
as (uncredited)
Frank Bruno
as (uncredited)