Fortunes Of War Matt Salinger ("Pickett Fences," "Power") stars as Peter Kernan, a courageous American relief worker in war-ravaged, Thailand. Burned-out and desperate for cash, Kernan is lured for cash Kernan is lured into a scheme to smuggle a million dollars' worth of medicine over the border to a brutal warlord's jungle post. With his long-time friend, Cambodian refugee Khoy Thoun (Academy Award winning Haing S. Ngor, "The Killing Fields) and a beautiful strong willed French Red Cross worker (Sam Jenkins), whose feelings for Peter are complicated by her marriage of convenience to the scheme's mastermind (Michael Ironside), Kernan and his renegade crew soon find themselves outnumbered in a bullet-filled race to deliver the drugs and make it home. Martin Sheen (in his first return to South East Asia since "Apocalypse Now") also stars with Michael Nouri. more details ...
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