1984 film starring, among others,
Patrick Swayze,
Charlie Sheen,
Jennifer Grey,
Lea Thompson,
C. Thomas Howell, and
Powers Boothe, about a Soviet-Mexican led invasion into
America. The film starts with
paratroopers gunning down people at a
high school. A few of them escape, load up on supplies, and head for the
Rocky Mountains of
Arapaho State Park. Eventually, though, they are drawn into the war, becoming a
guerilla fighting unit that calls themselves the
Wolverines, after the "local sports collective." A
jingoistic flag-waver of a film, it actually does manage to hit home a few good points about war, survival, and family in between the action scenes, especially after Boothe, playing a shot-down
fighter pilot, joins the teenagers.
Red Dawn was the first film to get a PG-13 from the MPAA. The back cover of the VHS tape shows a Russian tank parked outside a McDonald's, but it's not in the film.
"And now a few words for our allies behind enemy lines...
The chair is against the wall. The chair is against the wall.
John has a long moustache. John has a long moustache.