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| 2 | * BillingDisplacement: Creator/TommyLeeJones is first billed, although he does not appear until halfway though the film. Creator/JoanChen, who plays the main character's mother, is billed second. Hiep Thi Le, who plays the actual main character, is billed ''tenth'' (with an [[AndStarring "And Introducing"]] credit). |
| 3 | * BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $33 million. Box office, $5,864,949. |
| 4 | * CaliforniaDoubling: Vietnam was filmed in Thailand. Creator/OliverStone tried to get permission to film in Vietnam, but the communist government didn't like the scenes which portrayed the Viet Cong unsympathetically, [[CrapsackWorld never mind that every side is portrayed that way]]. |
| 5 | * FakeNationality: Papa is Vietnamese, while his actor Creator/HaingSNgor was Cambodian. |
| 6 | * GenreKiller: The 1980s fad of Vietnam War movies came to an end with ''Heaven and Earth'', which either killed the genre or confirmed that it was dead now. |
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