Top billed cast

1. 

   Tom Cruise

   Ron Kovic

2. 

   Raymond J. Barry

   Mr. Kovic

3. 

   Caroline Kava

   Mrs. Kovic

4. 

   Kyra Sedgwick

   Donna

5. 

   Willem Dafoe

   Charlie

6. 

   Jerry Levine

   Steve Boyer

7. 

   Stephen Baldwin

   Billy Vorsovich

8. 

   Josh Evans

   Tommy Kovic

9. 

   Rob Camilletti

   Tommy Finnelli

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Reviews

A review by kevin2019

Written by kevin2019 on 2025-02-28

"Born on the Fourth of July" is a powerful, worthwhile, and highly recommended film which shows the real social and familial challenges Ron Kovic faced when struggling to come to terms with the devastating after effects of war and the reality of how the contentious conflict changed him as a person and redefined how he perceived the world. He became dependant on alcohol for a time, but during a sojourn in Mexico while the continuing conflict in Vietnam was becoming more protracted by the day - it eventually becomes overrun by serious lapses in judgement which results in the ongoing deaths of m...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$14,000,000.00

Revenue
$161,001,698.00

Keywords

• vietnam war
• vietnam veteran
• post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)
• 1970s
• wheelchair
• biography
• based on true story
• based on memoir or autobiography
• desert
• fourth of july
• anti war
• drunkenness
• 1950s
• 1960s