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Apocalypse Now Redux

Rating:R (for disturbing violent images, language, sexual content and some drug use)
Genre:Drama, Action/Adventure
Release Date:August 3, 2001
Running time:203 minutes
Cast:Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Harrison Ford, Laurence Fishburne
Director:Francis Ford Coppola
Producer:Francis Ford Coppola
Writer:Francis Ford Coppola, John Milius
Distributor:Miramax Films

Description: Loosely based on Joseph Conrad's novel, "The Heart of Darkness", the film transplants the tale to the Vietnam War. A young American captain is given the assignment to hunt down and kill one of his own, a colonel, who has apparently gone insane. The deranged colonel murders hundreds of innocent people and constructs a strange kingdom for himself deep in the jungle, where he is deified by his followers.

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