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Directors: Oliver Stone Actors:
Tom Berenger Willem Dafoe Charlie Sheen Forest Whitaker Francesco Quinn John C. McGinley Richard Edson

Platoon 1986

120 minutes

'The first casualty of war is innocence.'

As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.

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