The Veteran is a 2006 American made-for-TV war film

War film

War films are a film genre concerned with warfare, usually about naval, air or land battles, sometimes focusing instead on prisoners of war, covert operations, military training or other related subjects. At times war films focus on daily military or civilian life in wartime without depicting battles...

 directed by Sidney J. Furie

Sidney J. Furie

Sidney J. Furie is a Canadian film director. Furie is perhaps best known for directing American Soldiers, The IPCRESS File, The Entity, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, Lady Sings the Blues, The Boys, Gable and Lombard, Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York and the Iron Eagle films.Also...

. It stars Ally Sheedy

Ally Sheedy

Alexandra Elizabeth "Ally" Sheedy is an American film and stage actress, as well as the author of two books. She is best known for her roles in the Brat Pack films The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire.-Early life:...

, Bobby Hosea

Bobby Hosea

Bobby Hosea is an American film and television actor.-External links:...

, Michael Ironside

Michael Ironside

Michael Ironside is a Canadian-born actor. He has also worked as a voice actor, producer, film director, and screenwriter in movie and television series in various Canadian and American productions. He is best known for playing villains and "tough guy" heroes, though he has also portrayed...

, Casper Van Dien

Casper Van Dien

-Early life:Van Dien was born and grew up in Milton, Florida, the son of Diane , a retired nursery school teacher, and Casper Robert Van Dien, Sr., a retired U.S. Navy Commander and fighter pilot. There is a long military tradition in Van Dien's family. Aside from his father, his grandfather was a...

, Colin Glazer, Sean Baek, Jim Codrington and Donald Burda. It is a follow up to Under Heavy Fire

Under Heavy Fire

Under Heavy Fire, also known as Going Back is a 2001 American made-for-TV war film. It stars Casper Van Dien, Jaimz Woolvett, Bobby Hosea, Joseph Griffin, Carre Otis, Kenneth Johnson, Daniel Kash, Martin Kove and is directed by Sidney J. Furie. It was filmed in Canada, Philippines and Vietnam.The...

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The film is the third in Sidney J. Furie's Vietnam War

Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...

 trilogy along with 1977's The Boys in Company C and 2001's Under Heavy Fire

Under Heavy Fire

Under Heavy Fire, also known as Going Back is a 2001 American made-for-TV war film. It stars Casper Van Dien, Jaimz Woolvett, Bobby Hosea, Joseph Griffin, Carre Otis, Kenneth Johnson, Daniel Kash, Martin Kove and is directed by Sidney J. Furie. It was filmed in Canada, Philippines and Vietnam.The...

, resembling Oliver Stone

Oliver Stone

William Oliver Stone is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Stone became well known in the late 1980s and the early 1990s for directing a series of films about the Vietnam War, for which he had previously participated as an infantry soldier. His work frequently focuses on...

 and his Vietnam War trilogy of 1986's Platoon

Platoon (film)

Platoon is a 1986 American war film written and directed by Oliver Stone and stars Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe and Charlie Sheen. It is the first of Stone's Vietnam War trilogy, followed by 1989's Born on the Fourth of July and 1993's Heaven & Earth....

, 1989's Born on the Fourth of July

Born on the Fourth of July (film)

Born on the Fourth of July is a 1989 American film adaptation of the best selling autobiography of the same name by Vietnam War veteran Ron Kovic. Tom Cruise plays Kovic, in a performance that earned him his first Academy Award nomination. Oliver Stone co-wrote the screenplay with Kovic, and also...

and 1993's Heaven & Earth.

Synopsis

30 years since the Fall of Saigon

Fall of Saigon

The Fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front on April 30, 1975...

, Ray Watson (played by Bobby Hosea from Under Heavy Fire), a Vietnam War veteran now working as a reverend, returns to Vietnam once again. When he arrives at his hotel room, he gets an unexpected visit from another veteran (played by Michael Ironside), who claims to be one of Ray's old comrades from Echo Company. Ray doesn't remember him, so he starts to remind him about the time that they served together. Meanwhile, government agent Sara Reid (played by Ally Sheedy) and her colleagues from the Vietnam Veterans Action Committee are in the hotel opposite secretly listening in to the conversation between the two veterans as they are assigned to search for a missing soldier.