#4

Rating: 3/10 (10 May 2010)

In the film the deer hunter, after the wedding, Mike and the others escort the newlyweds to the car and mike begins running down the street streaking. When Nick eventually catches up to Mike, Mike is sitting naked at a basketball court, leaning against the pole of the basketball hoop. Nick puts his jacket over Mike. Nick then proceeds to talk about going to Vietnam. Nick tells Mike how he likes his job. Nick says how he loves his friends, and his house and everything about the small town he lives in. He then tells Mike that he needs to promise him that he wont leave him there. Mike after laughing agrees, realizing how serious Nick is.
When in Vietnam, Nick gets shot in the leg while escaping after being captured. Mike and the others find a helicopter and although he gets Nick safely in, Steve falls out and Mike follows him knowing Steve can't survive this war alone. Once Nick is healed, he cannot remember anything. He eventually leaves the hospital and after turning down a woman at a party, he notices something outside and goes to find it. Upon doing so, he meets a man who once again introduces Nick to Russian roulette. Mike once saw Nick, but they were separated. Eventually after realizing Nick is still alive, because he has been sending money to Steve, Mike goes back for Nick, keeping the promise he had made before they left for the war. However after going through great lengths to get in, and going on the second round of Russian roulette, Nick dies from the game, and Mike has to bring him home in a body bag rather than as he left.