Robert Downey Jr. and Kiefer Sutherland play Ralph and Scott, a pair of best friends and college roommates who leave their small town after Scott’s brother enlists in the army and goes to Vietnam in the counterculture flashback flick 1969 (1988). Ralph's sister Beth (Winona Ryder) protests the war in the valedictory speech at her high-school graduation, and Ralph goes to jail for breaking into the draft office