Sunday, September 20, 2015

Platoon (1986)


Released February 6 , 1987 in the US.
Filmed in the Philippines.
The story : Young Chris Taylor left his comfortable life as a college student to fight in the Vietnam war.
Chris had no idea how much he and the people around him would suffer but after just three weeks of being in Vietnam he was beginning to feel the pressure.
When things got really tough Chris is advised by a friend that all he had to do was get out of there alive , all the time feeling like he was fighting a war against the men he was supposed to be fighting with.
Stars Charlie Sheen , Keith David , Williem Dafoe , Tom Berenger , Forest Whitaker , Kevin Dillion , Francesco Quinn , Reggie Johnson , Mark Moses , John C McGinely , Corey Glover , Johnny Depp , Chris Penderson , Bob Orwig , Corkey Ford , David Neidorf
Directed by (& story written) Oliver Stone
Rated R
DRAMA/ACTION



"Dedicated to the men who died and fought in the Vietnam War."

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