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| Category : |
Action |
| Starring : |
Patrick Swayze,
C. Thomas Howell, Charlie Sheen |
| Director : |
John Milius |
| Year
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1984 |
| Current Status
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In stock |
| Formats : |
DVD, VHS |
| Rated : |
PG-13 |
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| In the heartland of America, Russian
and Cuban paratroopers begin to drop outside
while classes go on in the high school. When
the soldiers begin killing everyone in sight,
local teens take to the hills to avoid the
new totalitarian regime established in their
little town and, as we later learn, throughout
the world. As country folk, they are well
familiarized with survival tactics and hunting,
which allows them to carry out sophisticated
acts of military sabotage, upsetting the balance
of power in town with their guerilla warfare.
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| SOME FACTS ABOUT THE MOVIE |
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Released August 10, 1984
Domestic Box Office: $38,900,000
114 Minutes, from MGM/United Artist
Alternate Title: Ten Soldiers
The eight young cast members underwent
a basic training of sorts. Technical Advisor
John Early stated, "we wanted to give
the kids an idea of how a guerilla solider
thinks, primarily to get them to come up
with an attitude that would show on camera.
We wanted them to get used to the idea of
being hunted all the time, and trying to
survive."
The fictional town of Calumet was actually
the small town of Las Vegas, New Mexico,
where principal photography began shooting
in November 1983. The local high school,
an abandoned Safeway supermarket, and other
locales were used.
Patrick to interviewer James Verniere in
Moviegoer Magazine: "What I think makes
this movie important is the theme of the
loss of innocense. You watch these children
destroyed by war. you see Jed losing his
sense of compassion. that, to me, is what
the film is about."
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