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Apocalypse Now

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Apocalypse Now
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R,2hrs 33min
Genres:
War,Drama,Action
Released:
January 1, 1979
Director:
Francis Ford Coppola
Distributor:
Paramount
Starring:
Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall  ...more
Synopsis: One of a cluster of late-1970s films about the Vietnam War, Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now adapts the Joseph Conrad novella Heart of Darkness to depict the war as a descent into primal madness. Capt. Willard (Martin Sheen), already on the edge, is assigned to find and deal with AWOL Col. Kurtz (Marlon Brando), rumored to have set himself up in the Cambodian jungle as a local, lethal godhead. Along the way Willard encounters napalm and Wagner fan Col. Kilgore (Robert Duvall), draftees who prefer ... Full Synopsis
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Mark Deming, AMG Review
Filmmaking masterpieces are often products of fate rather than design, and while Francis Ford Coppola's fierce ambition to create a great work of art is obvious in Apocalypse Now, the same ambition often threatens to crush the picture under its own weight. Apocalypse Now is an elaborate but often haphazard construction that starts to run out of gas at the three-quarter point without delivering a satisfying ... Full Review
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Marlon Brando
Col. Walter E. Kurtz, Colonel Kurtz
Martin Sheen
Capt. Benjamin Willard
Robert Duvall
Lt. Col. Kilgore
Frederic Forrest
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