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Release Date: 1989

Cast: Bryan Larkin, Josh Evans, Anne Bobby, Raymond J. Barry, Jamie Talisman, Tom Cruise, Willem Dafoe, Vivica A. Fox, Tom Berenger, Jerry Levine, Caroline Kava, Frank Whaley ...MORE

Cast: Bryan Larkin, Josh Evans, Anne Bobby, Raymond J. Barry, Jamie Talisman, Tom Cruise, Willem Dafoe, Vivica A. Fox, Tom Berenger, Jerry Levine, Caroline Kava, Frank Whaley, Stephen Baldwin, William Baldwin, Annie McEnroe, Kyra Sedgwick, Richard Haus, Holly Marie Combs, Lili Taylor, Richard Panebianco ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Political Drama, Anti-War Film, Biography, War Film, Biographical Film, Anti-War, Biopic [Feature], Drama Film, Period Piece, Film Adaptation

Born on the Fourth of July is a 1989 American film adaptation of the best selling autobiography of the same name by Vietnam War veteran Ron Kovic. Tom Cruise plays Kovic, in a performance that earned him his first Academy Award nomination. Oliver Stone (himself a Vietnam veteran) co-wrote the screenplay with Kovic, and also produced and directed the film. Stone wanted to film the movie in Vietnam, but because relations between the United States and Vietnam had not yet been normalized, it was instead filmed in the Philippines. Born on the Fourth of July is considered part of Oliver Stone's... MORE

Born on the Fourth of July is a 1989 American film adaptation of the best selling autobiography of the same name by Vietnam War veteran Ron Kovic. Tom Cruise plays Kovic, in a performance that earned him his first Academy Award nomination. Oliver Stone (himself a Vietnam veteran) co-wrote the screenplay with Kovic, and also produced and directed the film. Stone wanted to film the movie in Vietnam, but because relations between the United States and Vietnam had not yet been normalized, it was instead filmed in the Philippines. Born on the Fourth of July is considered part of Oliver Stone's "trilogy" of films about the Vietnam War—along with Platoon (1986) and Heaven & Earth (1993). The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards and won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Film Editing. The film was a critical and commercial success, grossing more than $232,000,000 worldwide and winning two Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and a Directors' Guild of America Award. The film begins with Ron Kovic's childhood during a summer in Massapequa, New York. He plays war in the woods, attends a Fourth of July parade, plays and wins at a local neighborhood baseball game, and watches LESS