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Born on the Fourth of July is a 1989 American epic 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.
5 Jan 1990 · Born on the Fourth of July: Directed by Oliver Stone. With Tom Cruise, Bryan Larkin, Raymond J. Barry, Caroline Kava. The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country for which he fought.
Born on the Fourth of July is a beautiful, tragic, yet empowering movie that will move anyone that is willing to be swept away by Oliver Stone’s masterful but challenging...
Watch Born on the Fourth of July | Netflix. Paralyzed from the chest down, US Marine Ron Kovic returns home from Vietnam and finds renewed purpose protesting the war he once proudly fought. Watch trailers & learn more.
Oliver Stone's Academy Award -winning masterpiece, based on a riveting true story, stars Tom Cruise as an eager volunteer for the Vietnam War who becomes a paralyzed and embittered...
Synopsis. Ron Kovic's is a child 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 President John F. Kennedy's inaugural address, which later inspires him to enlist in the Marines.
A film like Oliver Stone's "Born on the Fourth of July" is an apology for Vietnam, uttered by Stone, who fought there, and Ron Kovic, who was paralyzed from the chest down in Vietnam. Advertisement Both of them were gung-ho patriots who were eager to answer their country's call to arms.
