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Certificate 18

Cast Matthew Modine Adam Baldwin Vincent D'Onofrio R. Lee Ermey

Directors Stanley Kubrick

Screenwriters Stanley Kubrick Michael Herr Gustav Hasford

Running Time 116 minutes

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The journey of one Private “Joker” Davis, through the gruelling training regime to be a marine, fraught with its own psychological damage, to Vietnam itself. Here, as a war correspondent, he covers the Tet offensive.

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