2002 American war film on Navajo radio operators in WW II by John Woo From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Windtalkers | |
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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 dates | June 27, 1997 |
Running time | 134 mins. |
Country | United States |
Languages | English Navajo Japanese |
Budget | $115 million |
Box office | $77,628,265 |
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.
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