The Hero

Sam Elliott is Sam Elliott as Sam Elliott in “The Hero,” a sentimental and sporadically effective celebration of the veteran character actor.

It's not important to understand the nature of the wars that plagued Angola for more than three decades because the focus here is on the victims of those wars and how their traumas overlap and finally converge.

...tells the story of a discharged and one-legged Angolan sergeant named Vitorio (...) searching for a place in the society he fought to create for two decades after being kidnapped into the military at the age of 15.