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Born On The Fourth of July 140 minutes, USA (1989), 18
(3.5)
Rating: 3.5 Stars
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Tom Cruise proved that he really can act with his mesmerising perfomance as a battle scarred vet in Oliver Stone's gut wrenching tale of the fall-out from the Vietnam war

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Born On The Fourth of July: Tom Cruise narrowly missed out on an Oscar for his performance in the second part of Stone's Vietnam trilogy, although as Ron Kovic, the innocent, all-American boy who went to Vietnam and came home in a wheelchair missing his legs, he is nothing short of mesmerising...
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