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True story of Ron Kovic, a Marine wounded in Vietnam, covering...in New York, through his 1964 enlistment and tour of duty in Vietnam, to his harrowing stay at a veterans hospital in the Bronx and eventual transformation into a well-known...

Teenager Ron Kovic joined the marines, went to Vietnam to be a...performance. For over two hours, under the pile-driving direction of Oliver Stone (Platoon), Cruise takes us on a grueling journey. The film spans three decades, moving...

Perhaps one of most controversial and politically-charged directors of his generation, Oliver Stone has made some of the most seminal and enduring films of any time. With one foot consistently in the…

A wiry, pale, sharp-featured veteran of experimental theater, Willem Dafoe soared to stardom and earned an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actor playing the Christ-like Sgt. Elias in the Academy…

A ruggedly handsome, blue-eyed, versatile actor, often in brooding, aggressive roles, Tom Berenger came to attention as the self-effacing Tom Selleck-like TV star in Lawrence Kasdan's "The Big Chill"…

Kyra Sedgwick enjoyed a steady dramatic career in film and on stage and television for nearly two decades before breaking through to “household name” status as the lead of the TNT crime drama, “The…

A slim, intense character actor, Barry has had a career that has slowly built up steam since the 1960s. Active as both actor, playwright and director in experimental theater, he has worked with such…

In 2006, actor Tom Cruise was named Forbes magazine’s most powerful celebrity, with three Golden Globe Awards, three Academy Award nominations, and an average paycheck of over $60 million dollars a…