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Winner of 4 Academy Awards including Best Picture, and based on the first-hand
experience of Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone, Platoon is powerful, intense
and starkly brutal.
"Harrowingly realistic and completely convincing" (Leonard
Maltin), it is "a dark, unforgettable memorial" (The Washington Post) to every
soldier whose innocence was lost in the war-torn jungles of Vietnam.
Chris
Taylor (Charlie Sheen) is a young, naive American who, upon his arrival in
Vietnam, quickly discovers that he must do battle not only with the Viet Cong,
but also with the gnawing fear, physical exhaustion and intense anger growing
within him.
While his two commanding officers (Oscar-nominated Tom Berenger and
Willem Dafoe) draw a fine line between the war they wage against the enemy and
the one they fight with each other, the conflict, chaos and hatred permeate
Taylor, suffocating his realities and numbing his feelings to man’s highest
value...life.
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