Red Dawn (1984)

Directed by

John Milius

Genre

action film, adventure film, war film, disaster film, thriller film, propaganda film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 54m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 894 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Teenagers in a small Colorado town become guerrilla fighters after Soviet and Cuban forces invade the United States. The group, calling themselves the Wolverines, fights a brutal resistance campaign to survive and defend their home.

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What happens

Red Dawn is a 1984 American action drama film directed by John Milius, from a screenplay co-written with Kevin Reynolds, and starring Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson and Jennifer Grey, with supporting roles played by Ben Johnson, Darren Dalton, Harry Dean Stanton, Ron O'Neal, William Smith and Powers Boothe. Set during a fictional World War III between an increasingly isolated United States and the Soviet Union, the film follows a group of teenage guerrillas, known as the Wolverines, fighting against a joint Soviet-Latin American invasion force in Colorado. Despite mixed reviews from critics, the film became a commercial success, grossing $38 million against a budget of $17 million. It was the first film to be released in the United States with a PG-13 rating under the modified rating system introduced on July 1, 1984. A remake was released in 2012. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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