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Release Date: 1984

Cast: Darren Dalton, Lea Thompson, Charlie Sheen, Ben Johnson, William Smith, Sam Slovick, Pepe Serna, Brad Savage, Ron O'Neal, Jennifer Grey, Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell ...MORE

Cast: Darren Dalton, Lea Thompson, Charlie Sheen, Ben Johnson, William Smith, Sam Slovick, Pepe Serna, Brad Savage, Ron O'Neal, Jennifer Grey, Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Powers Boothe, Harry Dean Stanton ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Action, War Film, Action/Adventure, Disaster, Coming Of Age, Cold War, Drama Film, Thriller

Red Dawn is a 1984 American war film directed by John Milius and co-written by Milius and Kevin Reynolds. It stars Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, Charlie Sheen and Jennifer Grey. The film is set in an alternate 1980s in which the United States is invaded by the Soviet Union and its Latin American allies (specifically Cuba and Nicaragua). However, the onset of World War III is merely in the background and not fully elaborated. The story follows a group of American high school students who resist the occupation with guerrilla warfare, calling themselves Wolverines, after... MORE

Red Dawn is a 1984 American war film directed by John Milius and co-written by Milius and Kevin Reynolds. It stars Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, Charlie Sheen and Jennifer Grey. The film is set in an alternate 1980s in which the United States is invaded by the Soviet Union and its Latin American allies (specifically Cuba and Nicaragua). However, the onset of World War III is merely in the background and not fully elaborated. The story follows a group of American high school students who resist the occupation with guerrilla warfare, calling themselves Wolverines, after their high school mascot. An introductory text explains how the USA gradually became strategically isolated when several nations withdrew their membership in NATO. At the same time, the Warsaw Pact are aggressively expanding their sphere of influence. In addition, the Ukrainian wheat harvest fails and a communist coup occurs in Mexico. On a September morning in the small town of Calumet, Colorado, a local high school teacher pauses mid sentence when he sees paratroopers landing in a nearby field. These are Russian paratroopers, who promptly open fire when he confronts them. Pandemonium follows as LESS