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Platoon is a 1986 American war film written and directed by Oliver Stone, starring Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, Keith David, Kevin Dillon, John C. McGinley, Forest Whitaker, and Johnny Depp. It is the first film of a trilogy of Vietnam War films directed by Stone, followed by Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and Heaven & Earth (1993
Based on Stone's own wartime experiences in Vietnam, Platoon stars Dafoe as Sgt. Elias, whose level-headed manner distinguishes him from his violence-prone fellow officer, Staff Sgt. Barnes (Tom ...
An unnamed and psychotic Vietnam War veteran who returns from the Vietnam War sexually assaults and kills random women who stop at the filling station where he works as a gas station attendant. 1974 Canada Deathdream: Bob Clark: War veteran returns home as a living corpse. [31] 1974 US The Trial of Billy Jack: Tom Laughlin
Carlos Irwin Estévez (born September 3, 1965), known professionally as Charlie Sheen, is an American actor.He is known as a leading man in film and television. Sheen has received numerous accolades including a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for four Primetime Emmy Awards and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.
The film received mixed reviews. Rotten Tomatoes reports a 60% approval rating based on 15 reviews, with an average score of 5.83/10. [5]Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a B− and said, "The Vietnam-flashback material doesn’t resonate as sharply as it did when screenwriter James Duff first presented this as a stage play in 1984.
Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola.The screenplay, co-written by Coppola, John Milius, and Michael Herr, is loosely inspired by the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, with the setting changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War.
84C MoPic (also known as 84 Charlie MoPic; released in the Philippines as Platoon 2) [1] is a 1989 [2] American independent found footage war drama film written and directed by Patrick Sheane Duncan. [ 3 ]
The Execution of Private Slovik is a nonfiction book by William Bradford Huie, published in 1954, [1] and an American television movie that aired on NBC on March 13, 1974. [2] [3] The film was written for the screen by Richard Levinson, William Link, and director Lamont Johnson; the film stars Martin Sheen, [4] and also features Charlie Sheen in his second film in a small role.