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DVD, 1986
Current format, DVD, 1986, Special ed, Available now.
DVD, 1986
Current format, DVD, 1986, Special ed, Available now. Offered in 0 more formats
In "Platoon," a middle-class college student volunteers for the war in Vietnam because he considers it his patriotic duty. The first thing he encounters on the airport tarmac in Saigon is a cart of body bags. It's downhill from there: endless hikes, ditch-digging, heat, rain, bugs and snakebites, fear and confusion, sleeplessness, and terror when he finally sleeps. He will only gradually, unknowingly, become an adequate soldier--one who has left innocence far behind.
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Canadian Home Video rating: 18A. Not rated in BC.
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In English (Dolby 5.1), dubbed French (Dolby 2.0), or dubbed Spanish (Dolby mono.) with optional French or Spanish subtitles.
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