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MPAA Rating: R
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Genre: Adventure Drama, War Epic, Jungle Film, Anti-War Film, War
Box Office: / $78,784,010
Release Date: August 15, 1979 (USA)
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Summary:
One of a cluster of late-1970s films about the Vietnam War, Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now adapts the Joseph Conrad novella Heart of Darkness to depict the war as a descent into primal madness. Capt. Willard (Martin Sheen), already on the edge, is assigned to find and deal with AWOL Col. Kurtz (Marlon Brando), rumored to have set himself up ... Full Summary >>

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Cast:
Martin Sheen - (Capt. Benjamin Willard)
Marlon Brando - (Colonel Kurtz)
Robert Duvall - (Lt. Col. Kilgore)
Frederic Forrest - (Chef)
Dennis Hopper - (Photo Journalist)
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Review:
Filmmaking masterpieces are often products of fate rather than design, and while Francis Ford Coppola's fierce ambition to create a great work of art is obvious in Apocalypse Now, the same ambit ... Continue >>

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