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1. Cast

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     Tom Cruise

     Ron Kovic
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     Willem Dafoe

     Charlie (Villa Dulce)
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     Kyra Sedgwick

     Donna (Ron's girlfriend)
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     Raymond J. Barry

     Mr. Kovic
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     Caroline Kava

     Mrs. Kovic
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     Bryan Larkin

     Young Ron

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   Is born on the 4th of July a true story?

   • 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.

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   Is born on the 4th of July a war movie?

   • The accidental killing of civilians, friendly fire, and the terror facing the enemy are all well-trodden territory and Oliver Stone's Born on the Fourth of July portrays them through the eye of Ron Kovic (Tom Cruise). However, what separates this film from other war pictures is that it quickly moves away from those horrors.

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   How does born on 4th of July end?

   • The film ends with Kovic speaking at the 1976 Democratic National Convention, shortly after the publication of his autobiography. He tells the reporters who interview him that he feels he's home and that they all have come home. By what name was Born on the Fourth of July (1989) officially released in India in English?

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   Is 'born on the 4th of July' more complicated than 'platoon'?

   • (Hoffman committed suicide in April at the age of 52.) ''Born on the Fourth of July'' is a far more complicated movie than ''Platoon.'' It's the most ambitious nondocumentary film yet made about the entire Vietnam experience.

   Review/Film; How an All-American Boy Went to War and Lost His Faith

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   Synopsis. The film opens when Ron Kovic is a young boy living in Massapequa, Long Island, New York. He grows up in a patriotic and Catholic household, instilling within him a strong sense of pride in his country and his religion.

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   Dec 20, 1989 · Synopsis by Don Kaye. 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 ...

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6. www.imdb.com › title › tt0096969Born on the Fourth of July (1989) - IMDb

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   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.

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   Dec 20, 1989 · Taking ''Born on the Fourth of July,'' Mr. Kovic's fine spare memoir about this coming of age, published in 1976, Oliver Stone has made what is, in effect, a bitter, seething postscript to his ...

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   Born on the Fourth of July - Young Ron Kovic (Tom Cruise) eagerly volunteers for the Vietnam War as a teen, but he becomes an...

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   Summary Based on a true story, the film follows the young Ron Kovic from a zealous teen who eagerly volunteers for the Vietnam War, to an embittered veteran paralyzed from the mid-chest down. Deeply in love with his country, Kovic returned to an environment vastly different from the one he left, and struggled before emerging as a brave new voice...

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    Apr 7, 2014 · Born on the Fourth of July is the second movie in Oliver Stone's Vietnam trilogy. It follows Platoon (1986) and precedes Heaven & Earth (1993). It was based on the 1976 autobiography of the same name written by paralyzed Vietnam War veteran Ron Kovic. He co-wrote the adapted screenplay with Oliver Stone.