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MPAA Rating: R
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Genre: War Drama, Combat Films, Anti-War Film, War
Box Office: / $46,357,676
Release Date: June 26, 1987 (USA)
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Summary:
Stanley Kubrick's return to filmmaking after a seven-year hiatus, this film crystallizes the experience of the Vietnam War by concentrating on a group of raw Marine volunteers. Based on Gustav Hasford's novel -The Short Timers, the film's first half details the volunteers' harrowing boot-camp training under the profane, power-saw guidance of drill ... Full Summary >>

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Cast:
Matthew Modine - (Private Joker/Private J.T. Davis)
Adam Baldwin - (Animal Mother)
Vincent D'Onofrio - (Leonard Lawrence, Pvt. Gomer Pyle)
R. Lee Ermey - (Gunnery Sgt. Hartman)
Dorian Harewood - (Eightball)
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Review:
For his first film since 1980's The Shining, legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick turned his attention to this adaptation of Continue >>

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