Born on the Fourth of July
Winner! 2 Academy Awards including Best Director
Tom Cruise delivers a riveting and unforgettable portrayal of Vietnam veteran Ron Kovic in Oliver Stone's Academy Award winning masterpiece. Based on a true story, the acclaimed film follows the young Kovic from a zealous teen who eagerly volunteers for the Vietnam War, to an embittered veteran paralyzed from the mid-chest down. Deeply in love with his country, Kovic returned to an environment vastly different from the one he left, and struggled before emerging as a brave new voice for the disenchanted.
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wish i'd seen it sooner - jalibu
I never thought much about this movie when it originally came out but recently i've been watching movies i'd skipped over years ago. I wish i had given the time to this movie sooner. it was a very moving and emotional story about a young man's dashed hopes. it was very well done and tom cruise is excellent.sour grapes but so entertaining - Chucky
Cruise is well cast in this story of a gung ho youth who busts a gut to get to Nam to kill commies for home & hearth. All he gets there is shot through the spine and left para palegic. The treatment he gets at the VA hospital along with its overall run down condition, complete with rats is enough to make anyone think twice about laying it on the line for a gang of people that just don't care what happens to you. After he's released, the central charatcter goes through crises after crises until finding his calling as a peace activist. The movies is great, the casting is great and the plot more than believeable, its true--I'd see this movie againGreat Film - bUgs1
This is a very emotionally charged war drama direced by Oliver Stone who won best director for it. Some of the shots in this movie are truely haunting and I think this is one of Tom Cruise's best performences yet. A lot of the images in the film will stick in your head for a while.
This DVD has no features, not even a trailor! Such a good film should have been made a collector's edition from universal! The Audio and Video are good, though.
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wish i'd seen it sooner - jalibu
I never thought much about this movie when it originally came out but recently i've been watching movies i'd skipped over years ago. I wish i had given the time to this movie sooner. it was a very moving and emotional story about a young man's dashed hopes. ...sour grapes but so entertaining - Chucky
Cruise is well cast in this story of a gung ho youth who busts a gut to get to Nam to kill commies for home & hearth. All he gets there is shot through the spine and left para palegic. The treatment he gets at the VA hospital along with its overall run down ...Great Film - bUgs1
This is a very emotionally charged war drama direced by Oliver Stone who won best director for it. Some of the shots in this movie are truely haunting and I think this is one of Tom Cruise's best performences yet. A lot of the images in the film will stick ...