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Actors: Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Keith David, Johnny Depp, Kevin Dillon Rating: Features: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Number of Discs: 1 Running Time: 120 minutes Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Release Date: June 5, 2001 Theatrical Release Date: December 24, 1986 Studio: MGM Video & DVD
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Emotional look at the war in Vietnam, seen through the eyes of a young man who discovers that the Viet Cong are not the only enemies he has to fight. Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure Rating: R Release Date: 11-JAN-2005 Media Type: DVD
Platoon put writer-turned-director Oliver Stone on the Hollywood map; it is still his most acclaimed and effective film, probably because it is based on Stone's firsthand experience as an American soldier in Vietnam. Chris Charlie Sheen is an infantryman whose loyalty is tested by two superior officers: Sergeant Elias Willem Dafoe, a former hippie humanist who really cares about his men this was a few years before he played Jesus in Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ, and Sergeant Barnes Tom Berenger, a moody, macho soldier who may have gone over to the dark side. The personalities of the two sergeants correspond to their combat drugs of choice--pot for Elias and booze for Barnes. Stone has become known for his sledgehammer visual style, but in this film it seems perfectly appropriate. His violent and disorienting images have a terrifying immediacy, a you-are-there quality that gives you a sense of how things may have felt to an infantryman in the jungles of Vietnam. Platoon won Oscars for best picture and director. --Jim Emerson
