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Red Dawn (1984) is a movie about a fictional attack on the United States and,
mainly, the guerrilla actions of a group of high school students. Red Dawn was the first movie to be
released with a PG-13 rating. The Flamingo Kid had
received the first PG-13 rating but was not released until after Red Dawn.
The movie featured Patrick Swayze (Jed Eckert), C. Thomas Howell (Robert), Lea Thompson (Erica), Charlie Sheen (Matt Eckert),
Darren Dalton (Daryl Bates),
Jennifer Grey (Toni) and Powers Boothe (Colonel Andy Tanner).
The name of the film and its band of young guerrillas appears to have been used by the United States Army for the December 13,
2003 Operation Red Dawn
in which the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was captured.
Plot summary
Warning: Plot details
follow.
It's the year 1984. The USSR declared war on the United States. Soviet troops invaded the U.S. through three points. The first attack force arrived from
Cuba. There, Soviet paratroopers landed
and occupied areas. The second invasion force, the main force, orginated from Mexico,
presumably a Soviet ally. The last attack force—the smallest—parachuted in from the western coast.
NORAD, the defense system the U.S. had created with Canada, detected the invasion. All U.S. major forces however only concentrated in dealing with the Texan invasion. The southeast United States, the site of the Cuban Soviet invasion, seems to have
little U.S. military action.
The Soviet Union managed to take over the whole Great Plains area of the
United States, extending from the Rocky Mountains to the Missouri River.
The plot revolves around how several Colorado high school students fared in the
war. They called themselves the Wolverines after their school's mascot.
Althought most of the partisan fighers are killed by the end of the movie, a voice-over appears at the end of the movie
showing a World War III memorial, and stating that the United States eventually wins the war.
External link
- The IMDb entry on
Red Dawn
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