Platoon.

Resource Information

The work Platoon. represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Newbury Town Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Platoon.

Statement of responsibility

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

Creator

• Platoon (Motion picture)

Contributor

• Hemdale Film Corporation
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Orion Pictures
• Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
• Berenger, Tom, 1949-
• Dafoe, Willem
• David, Keith
• Depp, Johnny
• Dillon, Kevin
• Kopelson, Arnold
• McGinley, John C
• Sheen, Charlie
• Stone, Oliver
• Whitaker, Forest

Subject

• Feature films
• Motion pictures -- United States
• Soldiers -- Vietnam -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Drama
• War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Drama
• War films

Genre

• Drama
• Feature films
• Motion pictures
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• War films

Language

eng

Summary

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

Awards note

Winner, 1987 Academy Awards for Best Picture (Arnold Kopelson), Best Director (Oliver Stone), Best Film Editing (Claire Simpson), Best Sound (John Wilkinson, Richard D. Rogers, Charles Grenzbach, Simon Kaye).

Cataloging source

IHI

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Robert Richardson ; film editor, Claire Simpson ; original music by Georges Delerue ; military technical advisor, Captain Dale Dye

Intended audience

MPAA rating: Rated R

Language note

In English, French, or Spanish with optional French or Spanish subtitles ; closed-captioned

PerformerNote

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)

Runtime

120

Technique

live action