Platoon 1986

Release date

12/19/1986

Directors

Tim Minear, H. Gordon Boos, Oliver Stone

Writers

Oliver Stone

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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