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  1. TOM CRUISE was almost 'Born on the Fourth of July' but alas, he was born on July 3rd! Olivier Stone's Born On The Fourth of July is an ambitious, powerful and melodramatic biopic on the life of Vietnam War veteran Ron Kovic. A deconstruction of American iconography & masculinity, this is a better anti-war movie than Stone's own Platoon.

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  3. Dec 20, 1989 · The second of three films by co-writer/director Oliver Stone to explore the effects of the Vietnam War (Platoon and Heaven and Earth are the others), Born On The Fourth Of July tells the true story of Ron Kovic (Tom Cruise), a patriotic, All-American small town athlete who shocks his family by enlisting with the Marines to fight in the Vietnam War.

  4. 2192. 2193. Born on the Fourth of July is 2189 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The movie has moved up the charts by 705 places since yesterday. In the United States, it is currently more popular than A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master but less popular than Hard to Be a God.

    • 145 min
  5. Sep 10, 2012 · Cruise's performance is a powerful, credible interpretation; but Stone can't resist sermonising, particularly when he overplays Kovic's tortured attempts at catharsis after he accidentally shoots ...

  6. Born on the Fourth of July is a film about the things that many wish to overlook as being facts of war and the fact of fighting on behalf of one's country. This is a film about the dirty details that are inconvenient regardless of the side you are on. Ron Kovic, a real man who wrote the book upon which the film is based, is a paraplegic from ...

  7. Purchase Born on the Fourth of July on digital and stream instantly or download offline. Tom Cruise delivers a riveting and unforgettable portrayal of Vietnam veteran Ron Kovic in Oliver Stone's Academy Award®-winning masterpiece. Based on a true story, the acclaimed film follows the young Kovic from a zealous teen who eagerly volunteers for the Vietnam War, to an embittered veteran paralyzed ...

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