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True story of Ron Kovic, a Marine wounded in Vietnam, covering his life from childhood in New York, through his 1964 enlistment and tour of duty in Vietnam, to his harrowing stay at a veterans hospita...( read more 
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MCT:November 19, 2008This movie left me shaken and choked up! It pays homage to The Best Years of Our Lives and perhaps some other films about vets returning home. But specifically Best Years, I think, with the shot of Ron Kovic after he has become paralyzed and finally returns to his parents' house staring at his high school wrestling picture in his old room. Harold Russell in Best Years does the exact same thing becoming lost in the old picture from his high school athletics career when he felt he was a whole person. Both of these movies deal with men who have lost some part of themselves and have to discover how to gain strength and courage and acceptance to be a whole man again. By exploring Ron's youth, Born on the Fourth of July shows that the story is really about pressure and failure and confusion and how we deal with those things. This is an epic story with a tremendous supporting cast. It's about a boy who becomes a soldier, a soldier who becomes paralyzed, a paraplegic who becomes an outcast all the while searching for his humanity!! Sometimes it takes an outcast to speak the truth, someone who has been paralyzed to really stand for something, a soldier to fight for life, and of course it's the natural progression of things for a boy to triumphantly become a man!
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MCT:January 31, 2007Pretty good movie.
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MCT:October 21, 2008
One of the few roles I liked Cruise in. An exciting film, really mind-blowing albeit conventional and yet even in spite of that, this film brings out a certain depth in it, a certain Hollywood style payoff and fundamental enjoyment of the film. I love it and personally was touched by it at certain points. Dafoe's performance was well-done and also, another thing is the tone, beautifully done and handled, Stone really brings out this transformation well in a traditional style and the depth in it is just great.
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MCT:October 21, 2008maybe the 1st i thought how a good actor tom cruise could be, and he really is. Heavy drama and the leg scene still haunts me
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MCT:October 8, 2008
A very emotional movie. The storytelling is superb. Tom Cruise's portrayal of Ron Kovic is ultimately powerful and effective (proof he is a great actor). The way his character changes from a supporter of the Vietnam War to a protester is astonishing. Oliver Stone's best.
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