Heroes (film)
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Heroes is a film with Henry Winkler and Sally Field, with a guest appearance by a young Harrison Ford playing a stock car driver in Sedalia, Missouri with a stolen machine gun in his motor home.
The story is about Henry's character, a Vietnam Veteran, who evades the confines of a mental ward in New York City to start a business as a worm farmer in the south. At the bus station, he meets Sally Field's character, a woman unsure of her engagement and marriage to a man she doesn't love, and they set on a trip to middle America to think things over. Henry's character subsequently ruins her "getaway" by being associated with him and regarded as his wife.
The original ending had the couple finally reaching "Henry's" best friend's house. Only to find out that he was killed in action in Vietnam, which was actually the reason why Henry's character ended in the mental ward in the first place.
The original ending was regarded 'unsellable' in the US and was replaced with a softer 'US version' of the ending that made no sense.
[edit] Trivia
In the MCA video release of the movie, Kansas's song "Carry On Wayward Son" was removed from the last 3-4 minutes of the movie. The footage of Henry running down the street when he's told his best buddy died in the Vietnam war, was removed and replaced with a scene of Sally Field embracing Henry in a fetal position in a marshy field. This is a change that most fans of the movie and of the group band Kansas, regard as a mistake. Movie was filmed in Sonoma County, California, mainly in Petaluma.
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