Storyline
The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
Directors
Cast
Tom Cruise, Byron Minns, John William Galt, Kyra Sedgwick, William Mapother, Frank Whaley, Bruce MacVittie, Tom Sizemore, Dale Dye, Craig T. Nelson, Joseph P. Reidy, Joy Zapata, Bob Gunton, Wayne Knight, Jack McGee, Willem Dafoe, Norman D. Wilson, Oliver Stone, Mike Starr, Beau Starr, David Herman, Chuck Pfeiffer, Michael Wincott, Holly Marie Combs, Jake Weber, Vivica A. Fox, Brian Tarantina, David Warshofsky, John C. McGinley, John Getz, R. D. Call, William Baldwin, Tom Berenger, Chris Pedersen, Raymond J. Barry, James Le Gros, Reg E. Cathey, Damien Leake, Alan Toy, Ed Lauter, Mark Moses, Paul Sanchez, Jodi Long, Sean Stone, Melinda Renna, Peter Crombie, Lili Taylor, Lucinda Jenney, Ellen Pasternack, Richard Poe, Begonya Plaza, Daniel Baldwin, Frank Girardeau, Andrew Lauer, Réal Andrews, Stephen Baldwin, Rocky Carroll, Delia Sheppard, Annie McEnroe, Josh Evans, Bill Allen, Ivan Kane, Elizabeth Hoffman, Jenna von Oy, David Neidorf, Jerry Levine, Donald Wilson, Nick Nicholson, Henry Strzalkowski, Corkey Ford, Markus Flanagan, Anthony Pena, Edith Diaz, Jason Gedrick, Claude Brooks, Anne Bobby, Michelle Hurst, Frank Cavestani, Norma Moore, Caroline Kava, Rob Camilletti, Cordelia González, Tony Frank, Jayne Haynes, Richard Panebianco, Stacey Moseley, Billie Neal, Edie Brickell, Rick Masters, John Del Regno, J.R. Nutt, Ken Osborne, William Wallace, Eagle-Eye Cherry, Theresa Bell, Dean Denton, Ron Kovic
Trailer
Reviews
100
Nothing Cruise has done will prepare you for what he does in Born on the Fourth of July. His performance is so good that the movie lives through it. Stone is able to make his statement with Cruise's face and voice and doesn't need to put everything into the dialogue.
100
Empire
Some will find it overly long, but with such a pivotal performance by Cruise and a veritable platoon of Hollywood elite supporting, who can begrudge a bit more screen time?
100
Rolling Stone
But Stone has found in Cruise the ideal actor to anchor the movie with simplicity and strength. Together they do more than show what happened to Kovic. Their fervent, consistently gripping film shows why it still urgently matters.
100
The New York Times
It is a film of enormous visceral power with, in the central role, a performance by Tom Cruise that defines everything that is best about the movie.
100
Variety
Oliver Stone again shows America to itself in a way it won't forget. His collaboration with Vietnam veteran Ron Kovic to depict Kovic's odyssey from teenage true believer to wheel-chair-bound soldier in a very different war results in a gripping, devastating and telling film about the Vietnam era.
