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Posts Tagged "Vietnam War"
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Casualties of War ***** (1989, Michael J Fox, Sean Penn, Don Harvey, John C Reilly, John Leguizamo, Sam Robards, Ving Rhames) – Classic Movie Review 4429
Director Brian De Palma’s 1989 movie is one of his half-dozen masterworks. Indeed it is a flawed masterpiece, and will come as a serious surprise to those who know De Palma only for Carrie, Blow […]
Dead Presidents ** (1995, Larenz Tate, Keith David, Chris Tucker, Freddy Rodriguez) – Classic Movie Review 3814
Producer-directors Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes’s 1995 action crime thriller is set in The Bronx in the late Sixties. Three African American Vietnam veterans, ignored and neglected by society, plan to steal withdrawn dollar bills […]
Heaven & Earth **** (1993, Hiep Thi Le, Tommy Lee Jones, Haing S. Ngor, Joan Chen, Debbie Reynolds) – Classic Movie Review 2075
Writer-director Oliver Stone’s honourable, bold and brave 1993 conclusion to his Vietnam trilogy started by Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July sees him trying to view to see conflict from the Vietnamese side […]
Born on the Fourth of July ***** (1989, Tom Cruise, Raymond J Barry, Caroline Kava) – Classic Movie Review 2063
Director Oliver Stone’s double Oscar-winning 1989 anti-war movie provides Tom Cruise with indisputably one of his best-ever roles as all-American boy Ron Kovic who was paralysed in the Vietnam War and returns to America to find […]
Coming Home ***** (1978, Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern, Penelope Milford, Robert Carradine, Robert Ginty) – Classic Movie Review 2053
Director Hal Ashby’s high-impact, liberal-minded, issue-led 1978 triple Oscar-winning classic triumphed at the Academy Awards. Jon Voight and Jane Fonda won Oscars for Best Actor and Best Actress as Luke Martin, a bitter, wheelchair-bound Vietnam […]
Good Morning, Vietnam **** (1987, Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker, Tung Thanh Tran) – Classic Movie Review 1544
Director Barry Levinson’s 1987 movie showcases an inspired performance by Robin Williams in this often hysterical Vietnam War comedy that won him huge worldwide acclaim and finally turned him into a bankable major Hollywood star. […]
Birdy ***** (1984, Nicolas Cage, Matthew Modine, John Harkins, Sandy Baron, Karen Young, Bruno Kirby, Nancy Fish) – Classic Movie Review 1487
Director Alan Parker’s marvellous 1984 film Birdy stars Nicolas Cage as Al Columbato, who tries whatever he can to help his best friend Birdy (Matthew Modine), now a speechless schizophrenic suffering from post-war trauma and […]