Carla Gugino, Corin Nemec, Emilio Estevez, Kathy Bates, Kimberly Williams, Martin Sheen - Director: Emilio Estevez This highly acclaimed motion picture stars Emilio Estevez, Kathy Bates, and Martin Sheen. Estevez (who also directed) plays a returning Vietnam War hero whose haunting experiences leave him unable to adjust to the quiet realities of small town life. At odds with his domineering father (Sheen), his desperately cheerful mother (Bates), and free-spirited younger sister (Kimberly Williams -- tensions at home soon escalate, finally reaching the breaking point one fateful Thanksgiving Day.