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Platoon

  • 8.1 /10

  • 4847

  • 89%

Plot

As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.

Cast

Charlie Sheen as Chris Taylor
Charlie Sheen

as Chris Taylor

Willem Dafoe as Sergeant Elias Grodin
Willem Dafoe

as Sergeant Elias Grodin

Tom Berenger as Sergeant Robert "Bob" Barnes
Tom Berenger

as Sergeant Robert "Bob" Barnes

Kevin Dillon as Bunny
Kevin Dillon

as Bunny

Forest Whitaker as Big Harold
Forest Whitaker

as Big Harold

Mark Moses as Lieutenant Wolfe
Mark Moses

as Lieutenant Wolfe

Keith David as King
Keith David

as King

Richard Edson as Sal
Francesco Quinn as Rhah
John C. McGinley as Sergeant O'Neill
John C. McGinley

as Sergeant O'Neill

Movie Facts

Rated

  • R

Status

  • Released

Release Date

  • December 19, 1986

Production Companies

  • Hemdale Film Corporation

  • Arnold Kopelson Productions

Production Countries

  • United Kingdom

  • United States of America

Spoken Language

  • English

  • Tiếng Việt

Budget

  • $6,000,000.00

Revenue

  • $138,530,565.00

Runtime

  • 2.00 hrs

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Platoon is a must see. The film that put Stone on the map, Platoon is considered by Vietnam Vets as the most realistic. But in keeping the maxim of giving credit where credit is due, much of the success of Platoon belongs to military adviser Captain Dale Dye, who has been linked to pretty much every great war movie in the last twenty years. Much accolades to Tom Berenger as well, whose performanc…

**A film with a good script and good characters, but which exaggerates some things and is as anti-war as almost all films about Vietnam.** The Vietnam War is one of the most brutal conflicts the US was involved in the 20th century, and one of the first wars that Americans lost. Following the expulsion of the Japanese and the end of French colonization in the region, the effort to help democrat…