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Born on the Fourth of July

Cast

Tom Cruise, Raymond J. Barry, Caroline Kava, Holly Marie Combs View All


Crew

Oliver Stone (Screenplay), Oliver Stone (Director), Ron Kovic (Screenplay) View All

Release: Dec. 20th, 1989
Runtime: 2 hours, 25 minutes
The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
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Iroquois
Cruise can do good work when he's got good material to work with, and he manages to play Kovic with believable levels of optimism and despair at all the right points in the film, bringing the right sort of energy to what could otherwise be laughably melodramatic scenes (one scene where he delivers a....
Gideon58
Stone's intentions as a director and co-screenwriter (he also co-wrote the screenplay with the real Kovic) are on the money, but Stone lets his emotions and perhaps his personal collaboration with the film's subject push this film into serious overdrive.


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