Platoon (1986)

Platoon

Synopsis

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).

  • Director: Oliver Stone
  • Writer Oliver Stone
  • Stars Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe

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  • The film was marketed with the tag line, "The first casualty of war is innocence", an adaptation of Senator Hiram Johnson's assertion in 1917 that "The first casualty of war is the truth". (C.f. Aeschylus (525–456 BC), "In war, truth is the first casualty.")

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