Informed by director Oliver Stone's personal experiences in Vietnam, Platoon forgoes easy sermonizing in favor of a harrowing, ground-level view of war, bolstered by no-holds-barred performances from Charlie Sheen and Willem Dafoe.
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Movie Info
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Director -
Oliver Stone -
Producer -
Arnold Kopelson -
Screenwriter -
Oliver Stone -
Distributor -
Orion Pictures , Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , MGM/UA Home Entertainment Inc. -
Production Co -
Hemdale Film Corporation [us] -
Rating -
R -
Genre -
War , Drama -
Original Language -
English -
Release Date (Theaters) -
Dec 19, 1986, Original -
Release Date (Streaming) -
Sep 2, 2015 -
Box Office (Gross USA) -
$138.5M -
Runtime -
2h 0m -
Sound Mix -
Surround