Red Dawn (1984) Movie Overview

Red Dawn is a 1984 American war film directed and co-written by John Milius and written by Kevin Reynolds. The film is set in an alternate timeline during the mid-1980s, and deals with an invasion of the United States by the Soviet Union and its Central American allies. However, the onset of World War III is merely in the background of the plot and not fully elaborated upon. The story follows a group of American high school students who resist their foreign occupiers through guerrilla warfare and call themselves the Wolverines, after their high school mascot. The film begins on a September morning in the small Colorado town of Calumet. A local high school teacher pauses mid sentence when he sees paratroopers landing in a field outside the school. These troops, who are Russian Airborne Troops, promptly open fire on the teacher when he goes out to confront them. Pandemonium follows as students flee amid gunfire from the troops. In downtown Calumet, several fires rage. Cuban and Soviet troops are battling local American forces while simultaneously attempting to restore order after a hasty occupation of the town. Shortly thereafter, Colonel Bella, a Cuban officer, instructs the KGB to… Source

• Red Dawn Movie Details
• Director: John Milius
• Tagline: A full scale military invasion by foreign troops begins. Total surprise. Almost total success . . . .
• Country: USA
• Run Time: 114 min
• Genre: Action , Adventure , Drama

• Cast Overview
• Patrick Swayze as Jed
• C. Thomas Howell as Robert
• Lea Thompson as Erica
• Charlie Sheen as Matt
• Darren Dalton as Daryl
• Jennifer Grey as Toni

Red Dawn Movie Overview – Yahoo Movies

Red Dawn (1984): In the near future a group of teens escape to the nearby forest to protect themselves when the Soviet Union and Cuba launch an attack on the United States and paratroop into their small midwestern town. Source

Red Dawn Movie Review from New York Times

Set at an indeterminate point in the future, this drama with an overt anti-communist message begins as an ostensible war movie: Russian and Cuban forces have invaded the U.S. and are viciously eliminating the inhabitants of a small town, when a group of teens escapes and plans a counterattack. Jed (Patrick Swayze), Robert (C. Thomas Howell), and si… Source

Red Dawn Movie Details from Imdb

It is the mid-1980s. From out of the sky, Soviet & Cuban troops begin landing on the football field of a Colorado high school. In seconds, the paratroops have attacked the school & sent a group of teenagers fleeing into the mountains. Armed only with hunting rifles, pistols & bows and arrows, the teens struggles to survive the bitter winter & Sovie… Source

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