Who'll Stop the Rain?

Thoroughly disillusioned by the Vietnam War, John, a journalist (Michael Moriarty), turns to heroin smuggling. Acting as John's go-between is the equally burnt-out Ray (Nick Nolte), who delivers the narcotics stateside to the journalist's wife, Marge (Tuesday Weld). Soon, however, Ray and Marge are ...more

Karel Reisz's adaptation of Robert Stone's award-winning novel -Dog Soldiers is a brilliantly harrowing take on the effects of the hazy moral universe created by the Vietnam War. Nick Nolte stars as a jaded merchant marine vet at the end of his Vietnam hitch who agrees to smuggle two kilos of heroin into the States for equally cynical photojournalist Michael Moriarty. Released only a couple of years after the war's end, the film may have been too bitter a pill for audiences of the time to ...more