Friendly Fire
09/11/1980
2h 27m



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.
Cast


Carol Burnett
Peg Mullen


Ned Beatty
Gene Mullen


Dennis Erdman
Michael E. Mullen


Sherry Hursey
Patricia Mullen


Timothy Hutton
John Mullen
Fanny Spiess
Mary Mullen


Steve Bonino
Cactus
Henry Brown
Cosie Costa


Hilly Hicks
Willis Huddleston


John Hillner


Kevin Hooks
Polk


David Keith
Leroy Hamilton
Mark Montgomery


Dan Shor
Prince


Mark L. Taylor
Capt. Bannock


Bernard Behrens
Dietrich


Jorge Cervera Jr.
Woody Eney


William Jordan
Col. Byron Schindler
Joe Lowry


Joseph G. Medalis


Jack Rader
Sgt. Fitzgerald


Vernon Weddle
Col. Georgi


Phillip R. Allen
Ralph Jenner


Nicolas Coster
Carl


Charles Cyphers
Tom Loomis


Macon McCalman


Sierra Pecheur
Mrs. Hamilton


Ford Rainey
Mr. Hamilton
Jenny Sullivan
Mrs. Bryan
Robert Wahler
Alan Hulting


Sam Waterston
C.D.B. Bryan


Norman Bartold


William Bogert
Michael Bond
Robert Broyles
Michael Flanagan
Father Shimon
Mary Gregory


Jerry Hardin


Warren Munson


Wyatt Knight
(uncredited)
Frank Bruno
(uncredited)
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