
Barren Lives
1963


8 votes
A U.S. soldier returning home from war struggles to reconcile his experiences abroad with the life and family he left in Texas.
Director
Ryan Piers WilliamsWriter
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
N/A
Revenue
$12K

_**Coming back to normal life in America after experiencing war**_ After a bad ambush in Iraq, a man (Ryan O'Nan) comes home to El Paso to settle back into marriage and a job at a slaughter house, but buried issues keep surfacing. He and an army buddy (Wilmer Valderrama) travel to another town to visit a wounded comrade at a VA hospital. America Ferrera plays his wife, Jason Ritter a friend and Melissa Leo his mother “The Dry Land” (2010) is a drama about post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which brings to mind "Coming Home" (1978), "Born on the Fourth of July" (1989), “In Country” (1…
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