Windtalkers
| Windtalkers | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | John Woo |
| Written by | John Rice Joe Batteer |
| Produced by | Terence Chang Tracie Graham-Rice Alison Rosenzweig |
| Starring | Nicolas Cage Adam Beach Roger Willie Mark Ruffalo Peter Stormare Noah Emmerich Christian Slater |
| Cinematography | Jeffrey Kimball |
| Edited by | Jeff Gullo Steven Kemper Tom Rolf |
| Music by | James Horner |
| Distributed by | MGM |
Release date | June 27, 1997 |
Running time | 134 mins. |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | English Navajo Japanese |
| Budget | $115 million |
| Box office | $77,628,265 |
Windtalkers is an 2002 American war movie that was directed by John Woo and produced by Terence Chang, Tracie Graham-Rice and Alison Rosenzweig. It is based on the real story of Navajo code talkers during World War II. The movie was released on June 14, 2002 in the United States.
It was a box office bomb, which made $77.6 million worldwide at the box office, compared to its budget of $115 million.
The movie also received negative movie reviews with a 33% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and Roger Ebert gave the movie 2 stars out of 5.
Cast
[change | change source]- Nicolas Cage as Sergeant Joe Enders
- Adam Beach as Private Ben Yahzee
- Roger Willie as Private Charlie Whitehorse
- Peter Stormare as Gunnery Sergeant Hjelmstad
- Noah Emmerich as Private First Class Chick
- Mark Ruffalo as Corporal Pappas
- Brian Van Holt as Private Harrigan
- Martin Henderson as Private First Class Nellie
- Christian Slater as Sergeant Pete "Ox" Anderson
- Frances O'Connor as Rita
- Jason Isaacs as Major Mellitz
- Billy Morts as Fortino
- Cameron Thor as Mertens
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