Overview
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.
Cast
- 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