Movie · 1980
Friendly Fire
Released 9 November 1980 More from 1980 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
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.
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How old were they?
Jack Rader
as Sgt. Fitzgerald
Bernard Behrens
as Dietrich
Norman Bartold
Jerry Hardin
Carol Burnett
as Peg Mullen
Nicolas Coster
as Carl
William Bogert
Ned Beatty
as Gene Mullen
Cosie Costa
Mark L. Taylor
as Capt. Bannock
David Keith
as Leroy Hamilton
Timothy Hutton
as John Mullen
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The numbers
39years between the oldest and youngest billed
59Jack Rader — oldest on the call sheet
20Timothy Hutton — youngest billed
42average age of the credited cast