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Good Morning, Vietnam

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A disk jockey goes to Vietnam to work for the Armed Forces Radio Service. While he becomes popular among the troops, his superiors disapprove of his humor.

Status: Released

Released Date: 1987-12-23

Runtime: 121 mins

Director: Barry Levinson

Writer: Mitch Markowitz

Spoken language: English, Tiếng Việt

Genres: Comedy, Drama, War

Original title: Good Morning, Vietnam

Production Companies: Touchstone Pictures, Silver Screen Partners III

Production Countries: United States of America

Cast

Robin Williams

Forest Whitaker

Tom T. Tran

Chintara Sukapatana

Bruno Kirby

Robert Wuhl

J. T. Walsh

Noble Willingham

Richard Edson

Juney Smith

Dan 'The Man' Levitan

Richard Portnow

Eddie Kirk

Floyd Vivino

Jimmy Wah

Cu Ba Nguyen

Censor #1

Dan Stanton

Reviews

Wuchak

**_An unseen side of the Vietnam War_** Airman Adrian Cronauer (Robin Williams) is a DJ in Saigon, 1965. While Cronauer is a hit with the troops he incurs the wrath of his superiors for what they consider irreverent and subversive tendencies. When he's off the air, Cronauer pursues a cute Vietnamese woman (Chintara Sukapatana) while befriending her brother (Tung Thanh Tran). Forest Whitaker plays Cronauer's friend at the station while J.T. Walsh and Bruno Kirby play his nemeses. Based on the real-life story, "Good Morning, Vietnam" (1987) came out when Vietnam films were popular. While categorized as a war comedy, it's more of a war drama with amusing touches, mostly due to Williams' antics. It was a box office hit when released and hailed by critics. Roger Ebert, for instance, gave it a perfect rating. I didn't see it until a couple of nights ago, far removed from the hoopla of the period, and found it decent and somewhat amusing, but a tad overrated. Nevertheless, there's an unexpected twist in the third act and the movie is a necessary companion-piece to movies like "Platoon" (1986) in that it provides the non-grunt, political side of the infamous conflict. For instance, the story takes place just _before_ the troop levels were beefed up to 385,000 in 1966, which would escalate to 536,000 by 1968. The film runs 2 hours, 1 minute, and was shot in Thailand. GRADE: B-

2023-05-29

r96sk

Good, if a little underwhelming. Robin Williams (Adrian) is in strong form, while it's amusing to see a less experienced Forest Whitaker (Edward) in a rather dorky role. 'Good Morning, Vietnam' all makes for satisfactory viewing thanks to Mr. Williams' humour, even if I didn't have a great deal of interest in the plot et al.

2021-05-07

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