Under Heavy Fire

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Under Heavy Fire
Original poster
Directed by	Sidney J. Furie
Produced by	Gary Howsam
Screenplay by	Gregg Mellott
Story by	Sidney J Furie
Starring	Casper Van Dien Jaimz Woolvett Bobby Hosea Joseph Griffin Carre Otis Kenneth Johnson Daniel Kash Martin Kove
Music by	Amin Bhatia
Cinematography	Curtis Petersen
Editing by	Saul Pincus
Studio	GFT Entertainment
Distributed by	Screen Media Films (USA) Addictive Films (UK)
Release dates	2001 (2001)
Running time	113 mins
Country	Canada United States
Language	English
Budget	$13,000,000 (estimated)

Under Heavy Fire, also known as Going Back, is a 2001 American feature war film. It stars Casper Van Dien, Jaimz Woolvett, Bobby Hosea, Joseph Griffin, Carre Otis, Kenneth Johnson, Daniel Kash, Martin Kove and is directed by Sidney J. Furie. It was filmed under the title Going Back in the Philippines and Vietnam in April and May 2000. Post production continued in Canada for another 14 months. It was first screened at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2001 under its original title and at a running time of 2 hours and 29 minutes. The film was then shortened by its original team to its final release length and retitled Under Heavy Fire.

The film is the second in Sidney J. Furie's Vietnam War trilogy along with 1977's The Boys in Company C and 2006's The Veteran.

Synopsis

25 years since the Vietnam War ended, a group of American veterans return to Vietnam and meet up with TV journalist Kathleen Martin (played by Carre Otis), who is assigned to cover the reunion of the men from Echo Company. Soon, they are joined by their old Captain named Ramsey (played by Casper Van Dien), and they revisit the old battlefields they fought in and experience flashbacks of their time in the war during 1968.

Cast

Casper Van Dien : Capt. Ramsey
Jaimz Woolvett : Tex
Bobby Hosea : Ray
Joseph Griffin : Red Fuentes
Kenny Johnson : Jimmy Joe
Carré Otis : Kathleen
Daniel Kash : Eric
Martin Kove : Father Brazinski
Austin Farwell : Doc Jordan
Jason Blicker : Fred
Jim Morse : Gunny Bailey
Deborah Zoe : Irene
Pablo Espinosa : Chico

External links

Under Heavy Fire at the Internet Movie Database

v t e Films directed by Sidney J. Furie

1950s	A Dangerous Age (1959) A Cool Sound from Hell (1959)

1960s	Doctor Blood's Coffin (1961) The Snake Woman (1961) Three on a Spree (1961) During One Night (1961) The Young Ones (1961) The Boys (1962) The Leather Boys (1964) Wonderful Life (1964) The Ipcress File (1965) The Appaloosa (1966) The Naked Runner (1967)

1970s	The Lawyer (1970) Little Fauss and Big Halsy (1970) Lady Sings the Blues (1972) Hit! (1973) Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York (1975) Gable and Lombard (1976) The Boys in Company C (1978)

1980s	The Entity (1981) Purple Hearts (1984) Iron Eagle (1986) Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) Iron Eagle II (1988)

1990s	The Taking of Beverly Hills (1991) Ladybugs (1992) Iron Eagle on the Attack (1995) Hollow Point (1996) Top of the World (1997) The Rage (1997) Married to a Stranger (1997) In Her Defense (1998)

2000s	My 5 Wives (2000) Cord (2001) Under Heavy Fire (2001) The Fraternity (2002) Global Heresy (2002) Partners in Action (2002) Detention (2003) Direct Action (2004) American Soldiers (2005) The Veteran (2006)

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