River Phoenix and Lili Taylor star in a bittersweet story about losinginnocence and discovering love. In November 1963, four young marines inSan Francisco celebrate their last night before leaving to fight inVietnam with a "dogfight," a competition in which the man who brings theugliest date wins. Handsome Eddie Birdlace (Phoenix) convinces Rose(Taylor) to accompany him on a date--but he doesn't tell her she is partof the dogfight. Despite the pain...

The Green Berets, soldiers of the Special Forces, were crack troops skilled in the techniques of unconditional warfare and the focus of Hollywood's first feature film about the Vietnam War.