Nato il quattro luglio

Titolo originale: Born on the Fourth of July
Regia: Oliver Stone |
Anno: 1989
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Dramma Guerra
Tag: vietnam war | vietnam veteran | post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) | 1970s | wheelchair | biography | based on true story | based on memoir or autobiography | desert | fourth of july | anti war | drunkenness | 1950s | 1960s |
Cast: Tom Cruise | Raymond J. Barry | Caroline Kava | Kyra Sedgwick | Willem Dafoe | Jerry Levine | Stephen Baldwin | Josh Evans | Rob Camilletti | Vivica A. Fox | Lili Taylor | Tony Frank | Holly Marie Combs | Tom Berenger | Frank Whaley | Mark Moses | Bob Gunton | Cordelia González | Jayne Haynes | Anne Bobby | Richard Panebianco | Tom Sizemore | Michael Wincott | Mike Starr | Ed Lauter | Daniel Baldwin | Brian Tarantina | Dale Dye | Norma Moore | Stacey Moseley | Oliver Stone | Sean Stone | Jenna von Oy | Ellen Pasternack | Joy Zapata | John Getz | David Warshofsky | Jason Gedrick | Bill Allen | William Baldwin | Claude Brooks | James Le Gros | William Mapother | Byron Minns | Markus Flanagan | R. D. Call | Corkey Ford | Rocky Carroll | Chris Pedersen | David Herman | Bruce MacVittie | Damien Leake | David Neidorf | Paul Sanchez | Billie Neal | Richard Poe | Jake Weber | Reg E. Cathey | Edie Brickell | Joseph P. Reidy | Beau Starr | Rick Masters | John Del Regno | Melinda Renna | Andrew Lauer | Ivan Kane | J.R. Nutt | Begonya Plaza | Edith Diaz | Anthony Pena | Peter Crombie | Ken Osborne | Alan Toy | Chuck Pfeiffer | William Wallace | Eagle-Eye Cherry | Frank Cavestani | John William Galt | Jack McGee | Jodi Long | Michelle Hurst | John C. McGinley | Wayne Knight | Elizabeth Hoffman | Lucinda Jenney | Annie McEnroe | Réal Andrews | Theresa Bell | Dean Denton | Ron Kovic | Delia Sheppard | Nick Nicholson | Henry Strzalkowski | Norman D. Wilson | Frank Girardeau | Donald Wilson | Craig T. Nelson | Jessica Prunell | Michael Guess | Gale Mayron | Bryan Larkin | Seth Allen | Erika Geminder | Samantha Larkin | Ben Wright |

Ron Kovic, nato il 4 luglio 1946, si arruola nei Marines e torna dal Vietnam, nel 1968, paralizzato nella parte inferiore del corpo e impotente. Attraverso varie esperienze arriva a una presa di coscienza pacifista e porta la sua testimonianza alla Convenzione Democratica del 1976.

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I 10 film più famosi sulla guerra del Vietnam D
Abbie Hoffman: a war/draft protester when Ron visits Donna at her college. Hoffman died in 1989. D
The studio was initially very dubious about the casting of Tom Cruise in the lead, as he hadn't real [...] D
Jason Gedrick and Jerry Levine both starred in another war movie called L'aquila d'acciaio (1986). C [...] D
Tom Cruise and Willem Dafoe were also both born during the month of July. Tom Cruise was born on Jul [...] D
Tom Cruise had initially talked to Oliver Stone about taking the lead role in Wall Street (1987), bu [...] D
Unusually for a film about the Vietnam War, in which there is fighting purportedly in Vietnam itself [...] D
When playing paraplegic war veteran Ron Kovik in Born on the Fourth of July Tom Cruise wanted his le [...] D
Oliver Stone wanted to make the movie in Vietnam, but relations with that country and the U.S. were [...] D
The scenes of Tom Cruise in a bar in Mexico were actually shot in a town in Northern Philippines cal [...] D
Oliver Stone's then wife Elizabeth is mentioned in the closing credit roll as Naijo No Ko. This Japa [...] D
Ron reveals that he was shot on January 20, 1968. That's just 10 days before the North Vietnamese la [...] D
Bob Gunton, who plays the doctor who tells Ron about his paralysis, is a real veteran of The Vietnam [...] D
Three Baldwin brothers are in the film, William Baldwin, Daniel Baldwin, and Stephen Baldwin. They d [...] D
Macaulay Culkin had a small role as a kid, but was cut out of the film. D
Edie Brickell: The singer in the bar Ron goes to with Donna when he visits her in Syracuse. D
The last scene of the film to be shot - in a race against time as the sun was going down - was the w [...] D
According to Ed Lauter, he thought about the deaths of his mother, and his friends Lee Marvin and Ro [...] D
Frank Whaley was considered for the role of Tommy Kovic before being cast to play the part of Timmy. D
Including cameos by Oliver Stone, there are at least eleven other actors credited in this film, that [...] D
Ron Kovic and Oliver Stone wrote much of the script together at a café in Venice, California. D
For the duration of filming the scenes after Ron is paralyzed, Tom Cruise stayed in and used a wheel [...] D
Oliver Stone and Tom Cruise both expressed interest in using a nerve agent to cause genuine paralysi [...] D
The film cast includes one Oscar winner: Oliver Stone; and four Oscar nominees: Tom Cruise, Willem D [...] D
Oliver Stone had real animal feces brought on set for the enema scenes in the VA hospital. D
While shooting the initial bar scenes (purported to be in Mexico, but actually in a historic town of [...] D
The actor who played young Ron Kovic, Bryan Larkin, was originally from Massapequa, New York, the to [...] D
The word "fuck" is used 289 times throughout the film. D
During the opening credits, Oliver Stone's director credit would appear over John F. Kennedy's face [...] D
Melinda Renna's debut. D
A copy of "Johnny Got His Gun," a popular anti-war novel about World War I, is visible on Ron's hosp [...] D
Included among the American Film Institute's 1998 list of the 400 movies nominated for the Top 100 G [...] D
In the beginning of the movie when young Ron Kovic is playing baseball, the camera catches the back [...] D
The film's anti-war message meant that Universal was very nervous about its box-office chances, so t [...] D
Nicolas Cage and Sean Penn were considered for the role of Ron Kovic. D
This is the first Oliver Stone movie filmed in 2.35:1 aspect ratio. D
Kyra Sedgwick was pregnant with her first child (Travis Bacon) during this shoot. D
This film represents one of the rare instances where Oliver Stone was able to cast his very first ch [...] D
Despite second billing, Willem Dafoe doesn't appear until one hour and thirty-six minutes into the m [...] D
During the demonstration, one of the speakers says that the Bronze Star and Purple Heart honors he e [...] D
The entire film was shot in shades of red, white, or blue, depending on the emotional level (battle [...] D
Willem Dafoe and Tom Berenger were in Platoon (1986) another Oliver Stone directed movie that center [...] D
When Ron is sitting at a desk in Mexico, the book "All Quiet on the Western Front" is shown on the d [...] D
Oliver Stone became the sixteenth man to win a second directing Oscar, joining an elite pantheon tha [...] D
When this project was initially being assembled in 1979, original director William Friedkin dropped [...] D
On Prom Night in the movie, Ronnie's father laments that Vietnam is a long way to go to fight a war. [...] D
William Baldwin and Jason Gedrick, both appearing here as soldiers in Vietnam, would later star toge [...] D
Oliver Stone was presented his Best Director Oscar for this film by his former film school teacher M [...] D
The only Best Picture nominee that year to be also nominated for Best Sound, and Best Cinematography [...] D
Second part of Oliver Stone Vietnam trilogy. The other two are Platoon (1986) and Tra cielo e terra [...] D
Ron Kovic is the uncle of Funhaus host, Adam Kovic. D
One of the co-editors on this film, David Brenner would also serve as the film editor for Independen [...] D
Charlie Sheen was considered for the part of Ron Kovic. D
Al Pacino turned down the role of Kovic's father. Several years earlier, another version was propose [...] D
Raymond J. Barry and Caroline Kava, who play Mr. and Mrs. Kovic, parents to Ron Kovic, previously ap [...] D
Tom Cruise was born on the third of July. D
The first scene which Frank Whaley shots was that in which he and Tom Cruise speak at night in Cruis [...] D
Oliver Stone: the reporter interviewing the military official on television near the beginning of th [...] D
The speaker at the University of Syracuse protest is played by iconic Sixties juggernaut of activism [...] D
One of the guys in Ron Kovic's platoon is played by William Mapother. In real life, he is Tom Cruise [...] D
Frank Whaley and Michael Wincott also appeared in Oliver Stone's next film The Doors (1991). D
On the occasion of the film,s showing at the Berlin film festival in February of 1990, the Wall had [...] D
Set in Massapequa, New York. It is also the hometown of William, Daniel, and Stephen Baldwin as well [...] D
The real Ron Kovic gave Tom Cruise his Bronze Star for his performance in this movie. D

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When Ron returns home from the hospital the subtitle says " Massapequa, 1969". The colours of the le [...] D
A Jackie Gleason Blvd. street sign can be seen at the 1972 Republican National Convention in Miami B [...] D
In the movie, Ron is visiting a leader of the 1970 Syracuse University strike. As students listen to [...] D
Reeboks (first made in 1978) at a 1972 Republican convention. D
Ron joined the Marines in 1964, yet when he is in his bedroom contemplating his decision to join, th [...] D
The voice of Mel Allen is heard on the radio calling Mantle's 491st home run which would have taken [...] D
When Ron is taking the train to Upstate NY a Mass Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) commuter train is use [...] D
During the parade scene, Tom Cruise's US Marine uniform has 2 service stripes on the lower sleeve. I [...] D
Shortly after Ron arrives back home, he goes to a bar to get wasted. He then goes to the dance floor [...] D
When Ron and his friends walk out of Boyer's Ice Cream shop, you can see crew and equipment in the r [...] D
When the recruiter visits Ronnie's school, he incorrectly refers to Marine boot camp as "13 weeks of [...] D
When Oliver Stone is interviewing the infantry officer on the television, the officer's branch insig [...] D
In the movie, Ron is, by 1972, a full-fledged anti-war activist. Ron materializes on the floor of th [...] D
Reflections of camera and operator visible in the shiny black brim of Ron's hat during the second pa [...] D
Ron's family watches JFK's inauguration in Washington, DC in January 1961. It is sub-freezing there. [...] D
When Ron visits Billy's family in Venus, GA, he hears the stories of Billy's great-grandfather ("... [...] D
A 1957 Chevrolet convertible (released in the fall of 1956) is used in the 1956 Fourth of July parad [...] D
In the welcome home parade in 1969 we see two Elvises with the American eagle jumpsuit. This was not [...] D
During the parade at the beginning of the film set in 1956, several parade goers and participants ar [...] D
The song "American Pie" is played twice in scenes that are indicated as being in 1969. American Pie [...] D
During the Syracuse protest the group of students that are speaking are holding the Viet Cong flag. [...] D
The movie major is a decidedly unsympathetic character who ends his discussion with young Kovic by t [...] D
During a scene identified as July 4, 1969, the Kovic family is watching Laugh-In. Laugh-In aired on [...] D
When Ron visits the family of the man he accidentally killed in Vietnam, the chair swing is broken. [...] D
During the fighting in Oct. 1967 the Marines are shown using M14's and a Bazooka. In Oct. 1967 Marin [...] D
When Ron is thinking about what to put away in his room before boot camp, he stuffs away a toy pisto [...] D
On the night of his prom Ron Kovic listens to Mickey Mantle hit his 491st home run. Mantle hit that [...] D
In a scene in the Bronx Veterans Hospital, supposedly at some point in 1968, there is a poster next [...] D

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