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Born on the Fourth of July is a 1989 American biographical anti-war drama film that is based on the 1976 autobiography of Ron Kovic. Directed by Oliver Stone, and written by Stone and Kovic, it stars Tom Cruise, Kyra Sedgwick, Raymond J. Barry, Jerry Levine, Frank Whaley, and Willem Dafoe. The film depicts the life of Kovic (Cruise) over a 20-year period, detailing his childhood, his military service and paralysis…
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While I had heard about this film a great deal and do in fact remember how popular it was at the time of it's release, I somehow managed to not watch this somewhat famous film until yesterday. Perhaps it was the nearly 2 and a half hour runtime or maybe it was released at a point in time where I shunned all Academy nominated films. Whatever the reason was, I ignored this film for 35 years. src I enjoy war films and…More
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No other single person has helped frame Hollywood’s depiction of Vietnam War as Ron Kovic did. In 1978 his life story served as inspiration for the fictional protagonist of *Coming Home*, providing Jon Voight with Oscar for Best Actor. A decade later, Kovic became subject of conventional biopic *Born on Fourth of July*, written and directed by Oliver Stone, a film that would, just like the previous one, become one o…More
I have always been against war, it's one of the most absurd things that human beings do. The Vietnam War was a very cruel and irrational war which left an indelible mark on the American people, thousands of young people lost their lives there, others were crippled and with difficult psychological trauma to overcome. The films that I have watched related to the Vietnam War and that deal with this type of subject are,…More