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Apocalypse Now

Rating:R
Genre:Drama, Action/Adventure
Release Date:January 1, 1979
Running time:153 minutes
Cast:Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Laurence Fishburne, Dennis Hopper
Director:Francis Ford Coppola
Writer:John Milius/ Francis Ford Coppola

Description: During the Vietnam War, the young American Captain Willard is given the assignment to hunt down and kill one of his own: Colonel Kurtz, who has apparently gone insane, murdered hundreds of innocent people and constructed a strange kingdom for himself deep in the jungle. Willard and his crew embark on a surreal river journey to find Kurtz, meeting along the way a Lieutenant-Colonel who surfs during live combat, Playboy bunnies dropped in by helicopter to entertain rowdy troops, and the inhabitants of a French plantation trapped in colonial times.

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