Harold Russell

Birbirlerinden sınıfları, geçmişleri, yaş ve meslekleriyle ayrılan üç eski Amerikan askeri ve onların yeniden sivil hayata ayak uydururken karşılaştıkları sorunlar üzerine dokunaklı bir savaş sonrası destan... Bu üç adam, II. Dünya Savaşı sonunda yaşadıkları kente geri dönerler; başarılı bankacı Al, güvenli yaşamına; eskiden bir garson olup savaşta hava kuvvetlerinde yüzbaşılığa yükselmiş Fred, savaş sırasında evlendiği ve pek iyi tanımadığı eşiyle endişe veren kavuşmaya; eskiden öğrenci olup savaşta kollarını kaybeden Homer ise, sevgilisinin sakatlığına vereceği tepki konusundaki şüphelerine. Bunlardan ikisi geri dönüşte başarılı olacaktır: eskiden olduğu gibi yemekli toplantılarda konuşmalar yapan Al genç bir çiftçiye teminatsız kredi vermeye çekinmez; Homer’in sevgilisi onu hayal kırıklığına uğratmaz; kimsenin kabul etmediği Fred ise toplumun dışında kalacaktır, hayatının en güzel yıllarını geride bırakmıştır...

After a failed suicide attempt leaves him partially crippled, Rory begins spending a lot of time at a neighborhood bar full of interesting misfits. When Jerry the bartender suddenly finds himself playing basketball for the Golden State Warriors, Rory and the rest of the bar regulars hope his success will provide a lift to their sagging spirits. Will Jerry forget his friends? What about his junkie hooker girlfriend and her pimp?

Philip Van Horn, who left his small town a long time ago to become a Hollywood actor and hasn't had any success at that, returns to the town for a visit. There he is uniformally met like some kind of celebrity and movie star. He uses it to impress his (and everybody's) school love Dorothy, her life now a grey boring experience.

Harold Russell, an American soldier who lost his hands in a training accident, tells the story of his medical rehabilitation at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC, how he and his fellow amputees at the hospital at first despaired and then found new hope in the prostheses and training available to amputees through the Army's medical corps. Russell learns to wear and to operate the hooks which replace his hands and becomes competent to perform many tasks he had once thought no longer possible. Discharged from the Army, he is welcomed into Boston College by college president William J. Murphy, S.J.

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