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    Platoon

    Poster of the movie Platoon
    1986     Action drama    
    USA
    2h 
    R
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    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA.
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    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA.
    ·
    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA.
    ·
    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA.
    ·
    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA.
    ·
    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA.
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    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA.

    Charlie Sheen stars as Chris, a raw recruit, or "new meat," who serves as the film's narrator. At first he wilts under the rigorous conditions of jungle life, freezes up in a firefight, and wonders whether he'll be able to survive. But he gradually adapts and, as time goes by, begins to see that the platoon is divided into two groups. One consists of lifers, juicers, and subintelligent whites, the other of blacks and heads. Sgt. Barnes, a combat-loving burnout (Tom Berenger), is the informal leader of the lifers, and Sgt. Elias, a free spirit (Willem Dafoe), leads the latter group. When the platoon takes some gruesome losses while on an o.p., an enraged Barnes kills some Vietnamese who may or may not have been VC and orders the burning of their village, outraging the temporarily absent Elias. As the conflict between these two reaches its tragic denouncement, Chris must decide what he really values.

    Directed byOliver Stone
    Written byOliver Stone
    CompanyMetro-Goldwyn-MayerMetro-Goldwyn-MayerMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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    Starring

    Tom Berenger
    Keith David
    Willem Dafoe
    Forest Whitaker
    Kevin Dillon
    John C. McGinley
    Johnny Depp
    Charlie Sheen
    Richard Edson
    Tony Todd
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