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Apocalypse Now


1979 Movie
Ratings
8.4 91% 94 Aggregate Rating89.7 Concordance91.1 JustScore A proprietary, opinionated score, blended from IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes/Metacritic. Learn more 87.6
Runtime 2h 27m
Director Francis Ford Coppola
Writer John Milius, Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Herr
Cast Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall
Composer Carmine Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola
Genre Drama, Mystery, War
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Synopsis

It is the height of the war in Vietnam, and U.S. Army Captain Willard is sent by Colonel Lucas and a General to carry out a mission that, officially, ‘does not exist - nor will it ever exist’. The mission: To seek out a mysterious Green Beret Colonel, Walter Kurtz, whose army has crossed the border into Cambodia and is conducting hit-and-run missions against the Viet Cong and NVA. The army believes Kurtz has gone completely insane and Willard’s job is to eliminate him. Willard, sent up the Nung River on a U.S. Navy patrol boat, discovers that his target is one of the most decorated officers in the U.S. Army. His crew meets up with surfer-type Lt-Colonel Kilgore, head of a U.S Army helicopter cavalry group which eliminates a Viet Cong outpost to provide an entry point into the Nung River. After some hair-raising encounters, in which some of his crew are killed, Willard, Lance and Chef reach Colonel Kurtz’s outpost, beyond the Do Lung Bridge. Now, after becoming prisoners of Kurtz, will Willard & the others be able to fulfill their mission?


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Platform Prime Video
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Purchase date 5 Jul 2022
Release version Final Cut