Platoon

Plot Outline: Winner of 4 Academy Awards® and based on the first-hand experience of director Oliver Stone, Platoon is powerful, intense and starkly brutal. Chris Taylor is a young, naïve American who, upon his arrival in Vietnam, quickly discovers that he must do battle not only with the Viet Cong, but also with the gnawing fear, physical exhaustion, and intense anger growing within him. While his two commanding officers draw a fine line between the war they wage against the enemy and the one they fight with each other, the conflict, chaos, and hatred permeate Taylor, suffocating his realities and numbing his feelings.

DVD Release: 6/5/2001

Rated: R

Directed by:
Oliver Stone

Starring:
Tom Berenger
Willem Dafoe
Charlie Sheen
Forest Whitaker