Red Dawn
- Original title
- Red Dawn
- Year
- 1984
- Running time
- 114 min.
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Patrick Swayze
- C. Thomas Howell
- Lea Thompson
- Charlie Sheen
- Darren Dalton
- Ben Johnson
- Harry Dean Stanton
- Powers Boothe
- Jennifer Grey
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- War. Action. Sci-Fi | Propaganda
- Synopsis
- A film depicting the invasion of the United States from the north and south by communist forces from Cuba and Russia in the beginning of WWIII and the efforts of partisans from a small mid-western town to turn back the invasion. This film is one of the basis of the beliefs of the citizens militias and patriot groups about the possiblity of a U.N. takeover of the U.S. The movie and the theory of the New World Order proposed by the militias are similar, invasion by a foreign force, a big gun grab, arrest of gun owners, military equipment being moved on railroads, enemy helicopters re-education facilities (concentration camps), and a citizen force that strikes back.
- Critics' reviews
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"A childishly simplistic masturbatory fantasy for right-wing hebephrenics"
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"Red Dawn may be rabidly inflammatory, but it isn't dull. Mr. Milius does know how to keep a story moving"
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"The film is too dumb to work as patriotic exhortation and too mawkish to work as blood-and-guts exploitation."
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"Red Dawn charges off to an exciting start as a war picture and then gets all confused in moralistic handwriting, finally sinking in the sunset."
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"The casting is excellent, the performances are so good and the emotional thrust of the film so strong that it is impossible not to enjoy"
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