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Platoon [videorecording]
Title:
Platoon [videorecording]
JLCTITLE245:
[videorecording] / an Orion Pictures release ; Hemdale Film Corporation presents an Arnold Kopelson production of an Oliver Stone film ; produced by Arnold Kopelson ; written and directed by Oliver Stone.
Uniform Title:
Platoon (Motion picture)
Edition:
Special ed.
Publication Information:
[Los Angeles, CA] : Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; Beverly Hills, CA : Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2006.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1986.
Special features: Audio commentary with Oliver Stone; Audio commentary with Captain Dale Dye; "Tour of the Inferno" documentary [making of] (53 min.); Original theatrical trailer (2 min.); TV spots (2 min.); "Behind the Scenes" photo gallery [slide show]; Poster art [slide show].
Abstract:
In "Platoon, " a middle-class college student volunteers for the war in Vietnam because he considers it his patriotic duty. The first thing he encounters on the airport tarmac in Saigon is a cart of body bags. It's downhill from there: endless hikes, ditch-digging, heat, rain, bugs and snakebites, fear and confusion, sleeplessness, and terror when he finally sleeps. He will only gradually, unknowingly, become an adequate soldier--one who has left innocence far behind.
Reading Level:
MPAA rating: Rated R.
Added Corporate Author:
Contents:
Unknown territory -- Ants -- First week in hell -- Platoon politics -- New guys on ambush -- Dead of night -- Lesson in dying -- Crusader -- Feel-good cave -- Talking trash -- Bunker complex -- "Where's Manny?" -- Doing the village -- Look the other way -- "Fire in the hole" -- Enforced cease-fire -- No faith -- Rainy blur -- Waste of men -- Elias is out there -- "He's dead?" -- Your tired your poor -- Experts on killing -- Live bait -- Rest is gravy -- "Gotta die some time" -- In the foxhole -- Overrun -- One last shot -- Survivors.
Credits:
Director of photography, Robert Richardson ; film editor, Claire Simpson ; original music by Georges Delerue ; military technical advisor, Captain Dale Dye.
Performer:
Tom Berenger (Sgt. Barnes), Willem Dafoe (Sgt. Elias), Charlie Sheen (Chris), Keith David (King), Forest Whitaker (Big Harold), Francesco Quinn (Rhah), Kevin Dillon (Bunny), John C. McGinley (Sgt. O'Neill), Reggie Johnson (Junior), Mark Moses (Lt. Wolfe), Corey Glover (Francis), Johnny Depp (Lerner), Chris Pedersen (Crawford), Bob Orwig (Gardner).Corkey Ford (Manny), David Neidorf (Tex).
Technical Details:
DVD, Region 1, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo, widescreen presentation aspect ratio 1.85:1.
Language:
In English, French, or Spanish with optional French or Spanish subtitles ; closed-captioned.