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A star rating of 5 out of 5.

It took ten years for Oliver Stone to get his script made, but when this Vietnam War drama finally reached the screen it became a box-office smash and won four Oscars. Stone has the edge over Michael Cimino, Francis Ford Coppola and Stanley Kubrick, all of whom made major Vietnam movies, in that he was actually there as a volunteer who fought for patriotic reasons and got wounded before becoming disillusioned. From the scary opening when the new arrivals are greeted by the sight of body bags bound for home, the movie is an authentically messy tour of duty through the paddy fields where two Americans (Willem Dafoe and Tom Berenger) are at war with each other and fight for the soul of rookie Charlie Sheen. This is a modern classic and a personal exorcism for its director, who went on to complete a trilogy of Vietnam movies with Born on the Fourth of July and Heaven and Earth.

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Credits

Cast

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Sergeant BarnesTom Berenger
Sergeant EliasWillem Dafoe
ChrisCharlie Sheen
Big HaroldForest Whitaker
RhahFrancesco Quinn
Sergeant O'NeillJohn C McGinley
SalRichard Edson
BunnyKevin Dillon
JuniorReggie Johnson
KingKeith David
LernerJohnny Depp
TexDavid Neidorf
Lieutenant WolfeMark Moses
CrawfordChris Pederson
Sergeant WarrenTony Todd
Captain HarrisDale Dye
Alpha Company majorOliver Stone

Crew

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DirectorOliver Stone

Details

Released on
1987-04-24
Languages
English | Vietnamese
Guidance
Contains violence, swearing and drug abuse.
Available on
video, DVD and Blu-ray
Formats
Colour
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