The screenwriter of Scarface and Conan the Barbarian turns his attention to the plight of a strong-willed Vietnamese woman whose life is shaped and molded by war in the 1993 biopic Heaven and Earth, a real outlier in the filmmaker’s otherwise macho filmography.
Read MoreTom Cruise chased Oscar gold in Born on the Fourth of July, Oliver Stone’s messily compelling adaptation of Ron Kovic’s anti-war memoir.
Read MoreTime has not been kind to 1986’s Platoon, which sucks even harder than most Best Picture winners.
Read MoreNicolas Cage got INTENSE playing a shattered Vietnam veteran in Alan Parker’s arty adaptation of William Wharton’s novel.
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