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• War
• Drama

• 1987
• Stanley Kubrick
• 111 mins
• 18

Summary

War drama starring Matthew Modine and Adam Baldwin. After a gruelling eight weeks of extensive training and military induction under the sadistic rule of Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, a disparate group of US Marines faces real combat in Vietnam.

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Review

A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Adrian Turner

Stanley Kubrick's penultimate film is a harrowing, foul-mouthed and violent Vietnam War drama. But, unlike the rainforest horrors of Apocalypse Now or Platoon, Kubrick's film begins with a long training camp sequence in America before moving to a bombed-out Vietnamese city. While its message is simple - innocent young Americans are taught to be machine-like killers - its technique is extraordinary. Because Kubrick refused to travel any distance, it was shot entirely in Britain, with palm trees uprooted from Spain and Matthew Modine and a cast of relative unknowns uprooted from Hollywood. Renting a disused gasworks in Beckton, east London, Kubrick created a huge and spectacular outdoor set, though some sequences, it must be said, lack tropical realism. The performances are superb, especially Lee Ermey as the drill sergeant with a colourful vocabulary, Vincent D'Onofrio as the pathetic Private Pyle and Modine as the cynical recruit called Joker.

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8.2/10

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Cast

rolenamePrivate JokerMatthew ModineAnimal MotherAdam BaldwinLeonard Lawrence, Private Gomer PyleVincent D'OnofrioGunnery Sergeant HartmanR Lee ErmeyEightballDorian HarewoodPrivate CowboyArliss HowardRaftermanKevyn Major HowardWalter J Schinoski, Lieutenant TouchdownEd O'RossLieutenant LockhartJohn TerryCrazy EarlKeiron JecchinisPaybackKirk TaylorDoorgunnerTim Colceri

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rolenameDirectorStanley Kubrick

Details

Theatrical distributor

Columbia-Cannon-Warner

Released on

1987-09-11

Languages

English | Vietnamese

Guidance

Violence and swearing.

Available on

video, DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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