Red Dawn
Red Dawn is a 1984 American action drama film directed by John Milius with a screenplay by Milius and Kevin Reynolds. The film depicts a fictional World War III centering on an invasion of the United States by an alliance of Soviet, Warsaw Pact, and Latin American states. The story follows a group of teenage guerillas, known as the Wolverines, in Soviet-occupied Colorado. The film stars 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.
Plot
In the town of Calumet, Colorado, a high school class is suddenly interrupted by a Soviet invasion. The students, including brothers Jed and Matt Eckert, escape the chaos as Soviet paratroopers attack them; Soviet, Cuban and Nicaraguan troops proceed to occupy Calumet. Jed and Matt, along with their friends Robert, Danny, Daryl and Arturo flee into the countryside after arming themselves at a store run by Robert's father. Encountering a Soviet roadblock, they are saved by a U.S. helicopter. After several weeks in the forests, the group learn that Mr. Eckert is held at a re-education camp at Calumet's drive-in. Visiting the camp, they speak to him through a fence and learn that Mrs. Eckert is dead; he orders the group to avenge him.
More details
author | John Milius Kevin Reynolds Tony Gilroy |
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contentLocation | Colorado |
director | John Milius |
editor | Thom Noble |
events | Cold War |
genre | action adventure drama political |
keywords | ambush american flag arrest cuban cuban revolutionary armed forces drive-in flag of the united states kgb kill nicaraguan armed forces nicaraguan troops radio triangulation rock rocky mountains school class sovie soviet soviet airborne forces soviet armed forces soviet paratroopers soviet union tank battle torture tracking device tracking system triangulation united states air force usaf wolverine world war iii wound |
musicBy | Basil Poledouris |
producer | Buzz Feitshans Sidney Beckerman |
productionCompany | United Artists |
publisher | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer#MGM/UA Entertainment |
recordedAt | New Mexico |
theme | action drama coming-of-age high school propaganda war |