After encountering enemy fire, they flee the village and abandon its sole survivor, a crying baby. He and his unit kill a number of Vietnamese villagers after mistaking them for enemy combatants. In October 1967, Ron is now a Marine sergeant on a reconnaissance mission in Vietnam, during his second tour of duty. Ron goes to his prom, and dances with Donna before leaving for basic training. His decision receives support from his mother, but upsets his father, a World War II veteran. After attending an impassioned lecture by two Marine recruiters visiting his high school, he enlists. Kennedy's televised inaugural address inspires a teenage Ron to join the United States Marine Corps. On his Fourth of July birthday, he attends an Independence Day parade with his family and best friend Donna. The film opens in 1956 Massapequa, New York, with a 10-year-old Ron Kovic playing with his friends in a forest. The film also won four Golden Globe Awards for Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama, Best Director and Best Screenplay. At the 62nd Academy Awards, it received eight nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Cruise, his first nomination, and the film won for Best Director, Stone's second in that category, and Best Film Editing. The film was successful at the box office as it grossed over $161 million worldwide, becoming the tenth highest-grossing film of 1989. Upon release, Born on the Fourth of July was praised by critics for its story, Cruise's performance and Stone's direction. The film went over its initial $14 million production budget, and ended up costing $17.8 million after reshoots. Shot on locations in the Philippines, Texas and Inglewood, California, principal photography took place from October 1988 to December, lasting 65 days of filming. After the release of Platoon, the project was revived at Universal Pictures, with Stone attached to direct. When Stone optioned the book in 1978, the film adaptation became mired in development hell after Pacino and Bregman left, which resulted in him and Kovic putting the film on hold. Producer Martin Bregman acquired the film rights to the book in 1976 and hired Stone, also a Vietnam veteran, to co-write the screenplay with Kovic, who would be played by Al Pacino. It is the second installment in Stone's trilogy of films about the Vietnam War, following Platoon (1986) and preceding Heaven & Earth (1993). The film depicts the life of Kovic (Cruise) over a 20-year period, detailing his childhood, his military service and paralysis during the Vietnam War, and his transition to anti-war activism. Barry, Jerry Levine, Frank Whaley, and Willem Dafoe. Directed by Oliver Stone, and written by Stone and Kovic, it stars Tom Cruise, Kyra Sedgwick, Raymond J. Born on the Fourth of July is a 1989 American biographical anti-war drama film based on the eponymous 1976 autobiography by Ron Kovic.
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