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Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Sensormatic, French, Spanish, Subtitled
Red Dawn opens with one of the most shocking scenes ever filmed; on a peaceful morning, through the windows of a high school classroom, students see paratroopers land on the varsity football field: the invasion of the United States has begun! As their town is overrun by foreign nationals, eight teenagers escape to the mountains. Taking the name of their high school football team, the Wolverines, they wage unremitting guerilla warfare in defense of their parents, their friends, and their country. Powerful, chilling and absolutely gripping, this outstanding film features some of today's most popular stars. When it comes to thrrlling entertainment, Red Dawn wins the war with a vengance!
"Good action flick and the first PG13 movie." Michael A. Smith, Nolan's Pop Culture Review
"...an amusing x-ray of all the underlying anxieties of the Reagan administration..." Richard Scheib, The SF, Horror and Fantasy Film Review
Editor's Note
In the heartland of America, Russian and Cuban paratroopers begin to drop outside while classes go on in the high school. When the soldiers begin killing everyone in sight, local teens take to the hills to avoid the new totalitarian regime established in their little town and, as we later learn, throughout the world. As country folk, they are well familiarized with survival tactics and hunting, which allows them to carry out sophisticated acts of military sabotage, upsetting the balance of power in town with their guerilla warfare.
Plot Summary
What if Cuba and the Soviet Union opted for a conventional invasion of the U.S. rather than a nuclear attack?| Then, their troops would have another think coming.| Namely a group of high school students turned commandos. These teenagers -- Jed, Robert, Erica, Matt, Toni and others -- one day look outside their classroom windows to see Communist paratroopers descending from the clouds and landing on the soil of their small town.| Skilled hunters and tenderfoots alike, Jed and his friends take whatever food and weapons they can find and head for the mountains. It is not long, however, before the enemy soldiers follow their trail, take prisoners, rape women, and execute "subversives."| Now the fate of one theater of World War III rests in the rifle-filled hands of America's youth.
| Features | Audio: English, French Dolby Digital Stereo | | Audio: Spanish Dolby Digital Mono | | Dubbed: French, Spanish | | Featurettes: Red Dawn Rising, Building The Red Menace, Military Training, & WWIII Comes To Town | | Interactive Menus | | Pop-Ups: Carnage Counter | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: French, Spanish |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Red Dawn - DVD Review By: Don Willmott - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 7/6/2007 4:15 PM | |
I wonder if someone tossed a copy of Red Dawn into Ronald Reagan's casket before they buried the old guy. I can't imagine a movie he would have loved more. A highly absurd Gipper-era relic, it makes the "Evil Empire" days of 1984 seem like a million years ago. Anyone under the age of 35 will watch this propaganda exercise about a terrifyingly successful Soviet invasion of small-town America and say, "Huh???"...read the full review |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Mgm Entertainment |
| Release Date: 5/12/2009 |
| Running Time: 114 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1984 | | Catalog ID: 108131 | | UPC: 00027616081315 | | Number of Discs: 2 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 1.85:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Variety
"...RED DAWN charges off to an exciting start....Ron O'Neal is splendid..." 08/08/1984Total Film
"...There's much to admire in this tale..." 10/01/2000 p.102 Entertainment Weekly
"What truly haunts and gives DAWN its depth are the faces behind the weapons." -- Grade: B 07/13/2007 p.53 Variety 8 of 10
Red Dawn charges off to an exciting start as a war picture and then gets all confused in moralistic handwriting, finally sinking in the sunset...Sometime in the future, the United States stands alone and vulnerable to attack, abandoned by its allies. Rather than an all-out nuclear war Soviet and Cuban forces bomb selectively and then launch a conventional invasion across the southern and northwest borders...Dawn takes place entirely in a small town taken by surprise by paratroopers. Grabbing food and weapons on the run, a band of teens led by Patrick Swayze and C. Thomas Howell makes it to the nearby mountains as the massacre continues below...Swayze, Howell and the other youngsters are all good in their parts.
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| Customer Reviews | ![]() | | Cinematography |  5 | | Plot | 5 | | Acting | 5 | | Overall Satisfaction | 5 |
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5 of 5 Why the rest of us ignore professional reviewers Monday, August 13, 2007
Mark from Beavercreek, OH
I find it sadly ironic that Don Willmott thinks this film deserves only two stars. There's nothing outrageous or jingoistic about it. In fact, it's a remarkably prescient portrayal of the battle we currently face against Islamist Fascisim, unprotected borders, and the citizens' right and responsibility to keep and bear arms. The two tragic heroes of the film (portrayed by Patrick Swayze and a very young Charlie Sheen) demonstrate what liberal Hollywood hates to admit - that citizens, even high school students, must be taught survival skills and the safe, effective use of firearms, just in case the worst happens. Some would say the brothers Eckert failed in their mission. They would be wrong. The same is true of the many casulaties of any war, including the current one.<br>
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The main message of this film is that your safety and freedom cannot be provided by the Government. This is true whether the threat is an organized force as in this film, disorganized but dedicated terrorist cells, or individual predatory criminals bound on destroying your life, liberty, and property.<br>
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This movie isn't for everyone. If you think that the likes of Barbara Streisand, Jane Fonda, Sigourney Weaver, and George Clooney hold the brain trust on political wisdom, don't even bother. It won't be for you if you can't see past the surface scenario based in a historical context set before the fall of the Berlin wall. But if you recognize that this country's Founders also fought against tremendous odds with little more than their own personal will and determination to earn the freedom we now enjoy, and that liberty is a precious trust that must be earned with each generation, then maybe you are ready for Red Dawn.
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