Red Dawn

1984
US
114 min
15

Directed by: John Milius
Written by: John Milius, Kevin Reynolds
Cast: Patrick Swayze, C Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, Ben Johnson, Harry Dean Stanton, Ron O'Neal, William Smith, Powers Boothe
Language: English, Russian, Spanish

The Ruskies invade Colorado, and valiant high school kids fight back. Ludicrous, crude and commiephobic piece that hardly works even as a comic strip, and fortunately seems a little out of place given the current thawing of East/West relations.