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Features: DVD, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Widescreen, French, Spanish, Subtitled, Trailers, Trivia, Dolby Surround Sound
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 guerrilla 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, including Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, Jennifer Grey and veteran actor Harry Dean Stanton. When it comes to thrilling entertainment, Red Dawn wins the war with vengence!
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 | Region 1 | | Keep Case | | Dual Side - Single Layer | | Full Frame - 1.33 | | Letterbox - 1.85 | | Audio:
| Dolby Surround - English | | Dolby Surround - French | | Additional Release Material:
| Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer | | Text/Photo Galleries:
| Production Notes | | Additional Text: Trivia |
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Release Information
|  | Studio: MGM |
| Release Date: 4/2/2002 |
| Running Time: 114 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1984 | | Catalog ID: 906998 | | UPC: 00027616699824 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
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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 |
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