For those of you who made it this far and have never heard of this gem of a movie from he of Muppets fame, Jim Henson, here is a synopsis of the story as stolen from Wikipedia:. Marine on the night before he was shipped off to Vietnam in November By that time, paramedics had arrived on the scene and found Phoenix turning dark blue, in full cardiac arrest and in a flatline state. Phoenix's girlfriend Samantha Mathis also had come to meet him. I don't think he enjoyed that, actually, getting into that psyche.