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Release Date: 1979

Cast: Ron McQueen, Colleen Camp, Linda Carpenter, Emilio Estevez, Glenn Walken, Linn Phillips, Evan A. Lottman, Marlon Brando, Bo Byers, Dennis Hopper, Sam Bottoms, Joe Estevez ...MORE

Cast: Ron McQueen, Colleen Camp, Linda Carpenter, Emilio Estevez, Glenn Walken, Linn Phillips, Evan A. Lottman, Marlon Brando, Bo Byers, Dennis Hopper, Sam Bottoms, Joe Estevez, Jim Gaines, G. D. Spradlin, Martin Sheen, R. Lee Ermey, Bill Graham, Scott Glenn, Cynthia Wood, Don Gordon Bell, Albert Hall, Kerry Rossall, Joseph Conrad, Henry Strzalkowski, Jerry Ziesmer, Frederic Forrest, Nick Nicholson, Laurence Fishburne, Jack Thibeau, James Keane, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Duvall, Tom Mason, Vittorio Storaro, Harrison Ford ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Anti-war, Existentialism, Jungle Film, War film, Adventure Drama, Anti-war film, New Hollywood

Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film set during the Vietnam War, directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola. The central character is US Army special operations officer Captain Benjamin L. Willard (Martin Sheen), of MACV-SOG, an assassin sent to kill the renegade and presumed insane Special Forces Colonel Walter E. Kurtz (Marlon Brando). The screenplay by John Milius and Coppola came from Milius's idea of adapting Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness into the Vietnam War era. It also draws from Michael Herr's Dispatches, the film version of Conrad's Lord Jim (which... MORE

Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film set during the Vietnam War, directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola. The central character is US Army special operations officer Captain Benjamin L. Willard (Martin Sheen), of MACV-SOG, an assassin sent to kill the renegade and presumed insane Special Forces Colonel Walter E. Kurtz (Marlon Brando). The screenplay by John Milius and Coppola came from Milius's idea of adapting Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness into the Vietnam War era. It also draws from Michael Herr's Dispatches, the film version of Conrad's Lord Jim (which shares the same character of Marlow with Heart of Darkness), and Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972). The film drew attention for its lengthy and troubled production. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse documented Brando's showing up on the set overweight, Sheen's heart attack, and extreme weather destroying several expensive sets. The film's release was postponed several times while Coppola edited millions of feet of footage. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Apocalypse Now has a 99% "Certified Fresh" rating and was received with critical acclaim. Its cultural LESS