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• Drama
• War

• 1986
• Oliver Stone
• 114 mins
• 15

Summary

Oliver Stone's Oscar-winning war drama starring Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe and Charlie Sheen. Within days of his arrival in Vietnam, college dropout Chris Taylor is plunged into the hellish life of a GI, a world of fear, exhaustion and casual brutality in a fight against an unseen enemy.

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A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Adrian Turner

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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Cast

rolenameSergeant BarnesTom BerengerSergeant EliasWillem DafoeChrisCharlie SheenBig HaroldForest WhitakerRhahFrancesco QuinnSergeant O'NeillJohn C McGinleySalRichard EdsonBunnyKevin DillonJuniorReggie JohnsonKingKeith DavidLernerJohnny DeppTexDavid NeidorfLieutenant WolfeMark MosesCrawfordChris PedersonSergeant WarrenTony ToddCaptain HarrisDale DyeAlpha Company majorOliver Stone

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Released on

1987-04-24

Languages

English | English | Vietnamese

Guidance

Contains violence, swearing and drug abuse.

Available on

video, DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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