Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
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.
- dying and death
- vietnam war
- helicopter
- ambush
- war crimes
- village
- mine
- bunker
- infantry
- jungle
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Charlie Sheen
Chris Taylor
Willem Dafoe
Sergeant Elias Grodin
Tom Berenger
Sergeant Robert "Bob" Barnes
Kevin Dillon
Bunny
- Forest Whitaker — Big Harold
- Mark Moses — Lieutenant Wolfe
- Keith David — King
- Richard Edson — Sal
- Francesco Quinn — Rhah
- John C. McGinley — Sergeant O'Neill
- Johnny Depp — Gator Lerner
- Reggie Johnson — Junior
- David Neidorf — Tex
- Chris Pedersen — Crawford
- Tony Todd — Warren
- Directed
- Oliver Stone
- Written
- Oliver Stone
Production
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 · 5,258 ratings
- Studio
- Hemdale Film Corporation, Arnold Kopelson Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
