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Apocalypse Now (1979)
8.6
Ratings: 8.6/10 from 235,655 users
Metascore:
90/100
Reviews: 825 user | 215 critic | 29 from Metacritic.com During the on-going Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe. Director:Francis Ford Coppola |
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| Marlon Brando | ... | ||
| Martin Sheen | ... | ||
| Robert Duvall | ... | ||
| Frederic Forrest | ... | ||
| Sam Bottoms | ... | ||
| Laurence Fishburne | ... |
Tyrone 'Clean' Miller
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| Albert Hall | ... | ||
| Harrison Ford | ... | ||
| Dennis Hopper | ... | ||
| G.D. Spradlin | ... | ||
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Jerry Ziesmer | ... | |
| Scott Glenn | ... | ||
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Bo Byers | ... | |
| James Keane | ... | ||
| Kerry Rossall | ... | ||
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It is the height of the war in Vietnam, and U.S. Army Captain Willard is sent by Colonel Lucas and a General to carry out a mission that, officially, 'does not exist - nor will it ever exist'. The mission: To seek out a mysterious Green Beret Colonel, Walter Kurtz, whose army has crossed the border into Cambodia and is conducting hit-and-run missions against the Viet Cong and NVA. The army believes Kurtz has gone completely insane and Willard's job is to eliminate him! Willard, sent up the Nung River on a U.S. Navy patrol boat, discovers that his target is one of the most decorated officers in the U.S. Army. His crew meets up with surfer-type Lt-Colonel Kilgore, head of a U.S Army helicopter cavalry group which eliminates a Viet Cong outpost to provide an entry point into the Nung River. After some hair-raising encounters, in which some of his crew are killed, Willard, Lance and Chef reach Colonel Kurtz's outpost... Written by Derek O'Cain
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Rated R for disturbing violent images, language, sexual content and some drug use (Redux version) See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Budget:
$31,500,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$118,558 (USA) (19 August 1979) (3 Screens)Gross:
$83,471,511 (USA) (9 November 2001)Company Credits
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70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) | Dolby Digital (Redux version) | Dolby (35 mm prints) | DTS (Redux version)Color:
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Willard: [voiceover] Saigon... shit; I'm still only in Saigon... Every time I think I'm gonna wake up back in the jungle.
Willard: When I was home after my first tour, it was worse.
[grabs at flying insect]
Willard: I'd wake up and there'd be nothing. I hardly said a word to my wife, until I said "yes" to a divorce. When I was here, I wanted to be there; when I was there, all I could think of was getting back into the jungle. I'm here a week now... waiting for a mission... getting softer. Every minute I stay in this room, I get weaker, and every minute Charlie squats in the bush, he gets stronger. Each time I looked around the walls moved in a little tighter.
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in the Kurtz compound late in the film. See more »
Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
Performed by The Rolling Stones
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When Francis Ford Coppola asked Al Pacino to play Willard, Pacino turned him down saying, "I know what this is going to be like. You're going to be up there in a helicopter telling me what to do, and I'm gonna be down there in a swamp for five months." The shoot actually lasted 16 months. See more »Goofs
Continuity: During the helicopter attack scene, an American soldier gets wounded in the courtyard. Shortly afterward you see the courtyard designated by the yellow smoke of a smoke grenade. However, the next shot is of the courtyard and there is no yellow smoke yet and you can see a soldier toss the smoke grenade onto the ground. It just barely ignites before the scene cuts to the next shot. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Willard: [voiceover] Saigon... shit; I'm still only in Saigon... Every time I think I'm gonna wake up back in the jungle.
Willard: When I was home after my first tour, it was worse.
[grabs at flying insect]
Willard: I'd wake up and there'd be nothing. I hardly said a word to my wife, until I said "yes" to a divorce. When I was here, I wanted to be there; when I was there, all I could think of was getting back into the jungle. I'm here a week now... waiting for a mission... getting softer. Every minute I stay in this room, I get weaker, and every minute Charlie squats in the bush, he gets stronger. Each time I looked around the walls moved in a little tighter.
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There are no opening credits in the film. The title can be seen as graffitiin the Kurtz compound late in the film. See more »
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"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
Performed by The Rolling Stones
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