Mending the Line
★ 6.5 · 2023 · 117m · Drama · War
A Marine wounded in Afghanistan returns to a VA hospital in Montana where he meets a Vietnam vet who teaches him fly fishing as a means to coming to terms with his physical and emotional trauma.
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