Movie Settings Database

The Boys in Company C

Where:

California 🇻🇳 Vietnam

When:

The 1960s

To keep their sanity in an insane war, they had to be crazy. — Disheartened by futile combat, appalled by the corruption of their South Vietnamese ally, and constantly endangered by the incompetence of their own company commander, the young men find a possible way out of the war. They are told that if they purposely lose a soccer game against a South Vietnamese team, they can spend the rest of their tour playing exhibition games behind the lines.

Released in 1978 — 125 minutes

Genre:

War

Language:

English