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June 23, 2012  | By David Bianculli

Encore, 10:05 p.m. ET

 

This gripping drama, from 1987, is one of many cinematic masterpieces by Stanley Kubrick. It’s actually two movies – one detailing the boot-camp experiences of Marines being trained for duty, and the other dramatizing their experiences in Vietnam. Matthew Modine stars in both, but the scene-stealers in part one are R. Lee Ermey as the tough-as-nails sergeant, and Vincent D’Onofrio (left) as his most malleable and picked-on recruit.

 
 
 
 
 
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