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Born on the Fourth of July
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- How long is Born on the Fourth of July?
- Born on the Fourth of July is 2 hr 24 min long.
- Who directed Born on the Fourth of July?
- Oliver Stone
- Who is Ron Kovic in Born on the Fourth of July?
- Tom Cruise plays Ron Kovic in the film.
- What is Born on the Fourth of July about?
- In the mid 1960s, suburban New York teenager Ron Kovic (Tom Cruise) enlists in the Marines, fulfilling what he sees as his patriotic duty. During his second tour in Vietnam, he accidentally kills a fellow soldier during a retreat and later becomes permanently paralyzed in battle. Returning home to an uncaring Veterans Administration bureaucracy and to people on both sides of the political divide who don't understand what he went through, Kovic becomes an impassioned critic of the war.