Here are a dozen facts to shed some light on it.OLIVER STONE WAS SO TIRED ON THE SET THAT HE STARTED MAKING WILD ACCUSATIONS. Stone has been described as difficult to work with even under the ...

Platoon won the Oscar for Best Picture and it won Oliver Stone his first of two Academy Awards as a director. The movie is timeless. The actors who made it that way, not so much.

Lauding unparalleled praise, one critic wrote: “Platoon is the best American combat movie since All Quiet on the Western Front, and may be the most realistic of all American war movies.” While another ...

Platoon, directed by Oliver Stone and released in 1986, is now available to stream. ... Top 10 movies added to Netflix, Amazon Prime, BBC iPlayer and Channel 4 this week.