USA Movies

Winner of 4 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and based on the first-hand experiences of Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone, Platoon is a movie that regards combat from the ground level, from the infantryman's point of view, and does not make war look like fun (Roger Ebert). Powerful, intense and starkly brutal, Platoon is harrowingly realistic and completely convincing (Leonard Maltin) from beginning to end! Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) is a young naive American who arrives in Vietnam to quickly discover that he must do battle not only with the Viet Cong, but also the gnawing fear, physical exhaustion and intense anger growing within him. As the fierce battle rages around him, his two commanding Sergeants (Oscar-nominated Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe) draw a fine line between the war they wage against the enemy and the one they fight with each other, dangerously dividing the loyalty of the men. The fighting within, around and everywhere permeates Taylor, suffocating his realities and numbing his feelings to man's highest value...life. Platoon is a dark, unforgettable memorial (The Washington Post) to every soldier whose innocence was lost in the war-torn jungles of Vietnam.