APOCALYPSE NOW (1979)

FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

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Cast

MARTIN SHEEN MARLON BRANDO ROBERT DUVALL DENNIS HOPPER LARRY FISHBURNE FREDERIC FORREST SAM BOTTOMS SCOTT GLENN HARRISON FORD JOSEPH CONRAD JOHN MILIUS FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

Plot

The greatest movie ever made? A soldier is sent into the Heart of Darkness to retrieve a commander gone AWOL in an insane reality of tin-pot power, paranoia and inglorious killing. The horror of war is stripped naked in a surreal twilight world. The crew nearly went mad making it, Martin Sheen suffered a heart attack and Coppola flew so far beyond budget that the word 'bankrupt' was nearly redefined. See "Heart of Darkness"...