Good Morning, Vietnam
Good Morning, Vietnam film poster
Directed by	Barry Levinson
Produced by	Larry Brezner Mark Johnson
Written by	Mitch Markowitz
Starring	Robin Williams Forest Whitaker J.T. Walsh Bruno Kirby Noble Willingham Robert Wuhl Richard Edson
Music by	Alex North
Distributed by	Touchstone Pictures
Release date(s)	December 23, 1987 (USA)
Running time	119 min.
Language	English
Budget	$13,000,000 US (est.)
IMDb profile

Good Morning, Vietnam is a 1987 comedy/drama film set in Saigon during the Vietnam War, based on the career of Adrian Cronauer, a disc jockey on Armed Forces Radio Saigon (AFRS), who proves hugely popular with the troops serving in South Vietnam, but infuriates his superiors with what they call his "irreverent tendency". Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (485x755, 64 KB)http://impawards. ... Barry Levinson Barry Levinson (born April 6, 1942 in Baltimore, Maryland) is a Jewish-American screenwriter, film director, actor, and producer of film and television. ... Mark Johnson (born December 27, 1945 in Washington, D. C.) is a film producer who lives and works in the United States. ... Mitch Markowitz is a Canadian television executive who began his work on The Hilarious House of Frightenstein as an associate producer as well as portraying the characters of Superhippie and Mosquito. ... Robin McLaurim Williams (born July 21, 1952)[1] is an American actor and comedian. ... Forest Steven Whitaker (born July 15, 1961) is an American actor, producer, and director. ... J.T. Walsh (September 28, 1943–February 27, 1998) was an American actor best known for his roles as quietly sinister white-collar sleazeballs (quote from Leonard Maltin) in numerous feature films. ... Bruno Kirby, born Bruno Giovanni Quidaciolu, Jr. ... Noble Willingham (August 31, 1931, in Mineola, Texas — January 17, 2004, in Palm Springs, California) was an American television and film actor. ... Robert Wuhl (born October 9, 1951) is a comedian turned actor/writer. ... Richard Edson (born 1954, New Rochelle, New York) is an American actor and musician. ... Alex North (December 4, 1910 - September 8, 1991) was an American composer responsible for the first jazz based film score (A Streetcar Named Desire) and the first truly modernist film score (Viva Zapata!). Born Isadore Soifer in Chester, Pennsylvania, Alex North was an original composer probably even by the classical... Touchstone Pictures (also known as Touchstone Films in its early years) is one of several alternate film labels of The Walt Disney Company, established in 1984. ... December 23 is the 357th day of the year (358th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar). ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar). ... Comedy film is genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor. ... A drama film is a film that depends mostly on in-depth character development, interaction, and highly emotional themes. ... City skyline Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnamese: Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh  ) is the largest city in Vietnam and is located near the Mekong Delta. ... Combatants Republic of Vietnam United States Republic of Korea Thailand Australia New Zealand The Philippines National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam Democratic Republic of Vietnam People’s Republic of China Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea Strength US 1,000,000 South Korea 300,000 Australia 48,000... Adrian Cronauer (born September 8, 1938) is a lawyer and former radio disc jockey from the United States. ... For other meanings of DJ, see DJ (disambiguation). ... American Forces Network (or AFN) is the brand name used by the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS) for its entertainment and command internal information networks worldwide. ...

Cronauer is played by Robin Williams in a career-making role. Most of Robin Williams' humorous radio broadcasts were improvised. Williams was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Robin McLaurim Williams (born July 21, 1952)[1] is an American actor and comedian. ... Improvisational comedy (also called improv) is comedy that is performed with a little to no predetermination of subject matter and structure. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the awards given to actors working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ...

It also stars Forest Whitaker, Tung Thanh Tran, Chintara Sukapatana, Bruno Kirby, Robert Wuhl, J.T. Walsh and Noble Willingham. The movie was written by Mitch Markowitz and directed by Barry Levinson. Forest Steven Whitaker (born July 15, 1961) is an American actor, producer, and director. ... Chintara Sukapatana (b. ... Bruno Kirby, born Bruno Giovanni Quidaciolu, Jr. ... Robert Wuhl (born October 9, 1951) is a comedian turned actor/writer. ... J.T. Walsh (September 28, 1943–February 27, 1998) was an American actor best known for his roles as quietly sinister white-collar sleazeballs (quote from Leonard Maltin) in numerous feature films. ... Noble Willingham (August 31, 1931, in Mineola, Texas — January 17, 2004, in Palm Springs, California) was an American television and film actor. ... Mitch Markowitz is a Canadian television executive who began his work on The Hilarious House of Frightenstein as an associate producer as well as portraying the characters of Superhippie and Mosquito. ... Barry Levinson Barry Levinson (born April 6, 1942 in Baltimore, Maryland) is a Jewish-American screenwriter, film director, actor, and producer of film and television. ...

In 1979, Adrian Cronauer decided to pitch a sitcom based on his experiences as an AFRS DJ. TV networks were not interested because they did not see war as comedy material, despite the fact that one of the most popular shows at the time was M*A*S*H. Cronauer then revamped his sitcom into a movie of the week, which eventually got the attention of Robin Williams. Very little of Cronauer's original treatment remained after writer Mitch Markowitz was brought in.^[1] Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ... Adrian Cronauer (born September 8, 1938) is a lawyer and former radio disc jockey from the United States. ... A pitch is a concise verbal (and sometimes visual) presentation of an idea for a film, generally made by a screenwriter or director to a producer or studio executive in the hope of attracting development finance to pay for a screenplay to be written. ... A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... M*A*S*H is an American television series developed by Larry Gelbart, inspired by the 1968 Richard Hooker (penname for H. Richard Hornberger) novel M*A*S*H: A Novel About Three Army Doctors and its sequels, but primarily by the 1970 film MASH, and influenced by the 1961...

The movie was shot in Bangkok, Thailand. A BTS skytrain passing the Sathon area of Bangkok. ...

This film is number 36 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies". This article is about the U.S. cable network. ...

Plot

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Adrian Cronauer Robin Williams), fresh from the island of Crete arrives in Saigon during the middle of the Vietnam War to become the new DJ for Armed Forces Radio Saigon - AFRS. In comparison to most of the army people around him, Airman Cronauer prefers not to take things too seriously. He prefers to look at the pretty Vietnamese girls, including one who seemingly is able to move faster than the jeep he’s in (in reality, two different women with a similar hair and dress). Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... Adrian Cronauer (born September 8, 1938) is a lawyer and former radio disc jockey from the United States. ...

Taking a shine to Cronauer is Pfc. Eddie Garlick (Forest Whitaker), who continues to act slightly goofy around Cronauer (such as ‘starting’ the jeep, even though the motor is clearly running). However, most of the Army brass doesn’t feel the same way. Cronauer is introduced to Lt. Steven Hauk (Bruno Kirby) and soon afterwards to Sergeant Major Philip Dickerson (J.T. Walsh). Hauk prefers to stick very close to army guidelines, even in regard to humor, while Dickerson sees Cronauer as an annoyance he has to put up with. When woken up early the next day by Garlick, he’s introduced to a few more personalities around the radio station – General Taylor (Noble Willingham), who is the only higher-up who appreciates Cronauer’s humor; two identical twins who act as the army censor, deleting sensitive or embarrassing news for broadcast; and the DJ who is on the air before him, slightly hyper Marty Lee Dreiwitz (Robert Wuhl). Cronauer proves how wild he can be on the air as soon as his show starts at 0600 by yelling into the microphone, “GOOOOD MORNING VIETNAM!” and immediately launching into a wild show where he plays rock records (not the ‘safe’ records the army brass wants, such as records by Perry Como and Mantovani) and takes ‘phone calls’ (Cronauer using different voices) from men in the field and from personalities such as Walter Cronkite and Gomer Pyle (According to a DVD commentary, Robin Williams improvised most of the radio broadcasts, only going to scripted lines when needing to get back to the story). The radio staff immediately loves him and his wild act, but Hauk finds nothing funny about it and unsuccessfully tells Cronauer to rein it in. Outside the radio station, Cronauer finds the ‘same’ Vietnamese girl, Trinh, he spotted the day before and follows her to her English class. He bribes the teacher to leave, and he goes into a modified version of his humor for the class, teaching them the meaning of ‘slip me some skin’, for example. After class, he’s stopped by the girl’s brother, Tuan (Tran), who tells her not to go after his sister. Cronauer, embarrassed that he was caught, hangs out with Tuan and eventually brings him to Jimmy Wah’s, the local G.I. bar, where he hangs out with Garlick, Dreiwitz and others from the radio station. Cronauer is able to lure two girls away from a couple of other G.I.s, who immediately use the presence of Tuan as an excuse to get into a fight with the group. After getting told off by Dickerson, Tuan allows Cronauer to meet Trinh – bringing the whole family along for their ‘date’. Things go fairly smoothly, with Cronauer continuing his broadcasts in the morning and again at 1600 hours unhindered and teaching his English class to curse in English. Even making a tape where he 'asks' embarrassing questions of then Vice President Richard Nixon and looping in edits that sound like Nixon 'answering' the questions doesn't get him in trouble (at least with Genreral Taylor). While sitting in a bar one day, Tuan pulls Cronauer away from the bar (using another meeting with his sister as pretense) moments before Jimmy Wah’s blows up from a bomb inside. Cronauer, shaken from the bombing and the death of two G.I.s inside the bar, goes back to do his afternoon radio broadcast, ripping out the news of the bombing from the teletype before bringing it to the censors. The censors and Dickerson block Cronauer from using the news, but he locks himself inside the studio, telling verbatim what happened at the bar before his signal is cut off by Dickerson. Now on suspension, Cronauer gets drunk daily at a local bar. His radio broadcast, meanwhile, is taken over by Lt. Hauk. However, while Hauk thinks of himself as being on the same par as Cronauer humor-wise, his humor falls dead flat on the air (he attempts doing the same 'phone calls' bit, for example, but the voice is clearly still his, and the humor doesn't work). Hundreds of angry people call and mail the radio station demanding Cronauer to return (as Garlick puts it in a letter sent to the station, “Lt. Hauk sucks the sweat off a dead man’s balls. I don’t really know what that means, sir, but it seems pretty negative to me.”). Meanwhile, Cronauer tries to find some connection with Trinh, but she refuses, leaving Cronauer alone. After General Taylor orders Cronauer back on the air, Garlick tries to convince Cronauer to come back, but he still refuses, believing Dickerson will send him to the fighting line if he screws up again. However, Cronauer is persuaded when Garlick pulls up by a platoon on their way to fight, and convinces Cronauer to do an impromptu ‘broadcast’ for the men in the trucks. (This is followed by a montage showing the violence of the Vietnam War, contrasted with Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World” playing in the background) The next day, Dickerson sees a way to get rid of Cronauer by convincing him and Garlick to go to An Lac to interview some soldiers for the broadcast – knowing that the Viet Cong control the only road leading to An Lac. As Cronauer and Garlick are driving along the road, a bomb hits their jeep, and they get thrown into the jungle. When Cronauer doesn’t show up for his English class, Tuan runs to the radio station and spots Dreiwitz, who finds out where he went. Tuan then steals a car and goes off himself. After wandering for hours in the jungle, Cronauer and Garlick are saved by Tuan, who spots them (they went in a long circle, since Garlick was injured in the attack). The car doesn’t start, though, so they wind up walking to a clearing, where an army helicopter rescues them. Back in Saigon, Dickerson finally has the means to get rid of Cronauer – Tuan is actually Phan Duc To, a VC terrorist the army is looking for. Tuan had planted the bomb at Jimmy Wah's, pulling Cronauer out only moments before it was set to blow up. Dickerson informs Cronauer that the army is looking for him - with the intention of killing him. Enraged at being betrayed, Cronauer leaves the station, but not before hurling an insult in Dickerson's direction that infuriates him. Meanwhile, General Taylor tells Dickerson that he’s transferring Dickerson to Guam, away from the 'action', explaining: "Dick, I've covered for you a lot of times cause I thought you were a little crazy. But you're not crazy, you're mean. And this is just radio." Cronauer then finds Trinh and convinces her to take him to Tuan. Cronauer calls out his real name, and a chase ensues, where Cronauer eventually loses sight of Tuan. The two eventually talk, where Tuan accuses the U.S. Army of being the enemy, having killed most of his family. Tuan eventually runs off, disappearing again. The next day, Cronauer prepares for his trip back home, and hands Garlick a tape reel to play when he’s gone. Before he goes, though, he starts an impromptu softball game with his ‘students’, and gets a goodbye from Trinh, who thanks Cronauer for warning her about the danger her brother was in. As Cronauer’s plane leaves Vietnam, Garlick – now the DJ in place of Cronauer – plays the tape, where Cronauer yells “GOOODBYE VIETNAM!” before launching into some of the impressions he used on the radio, with the final wish for everyone to go home before the film ends.

Quotes

• "Gooooooooooood morning, Vietnaaaaaaaaaaaammm! Hey, this is not a test! This is rock and roll! Time to rock it from the Delta to the D.M.Z.!" - Robin Williams as Adrian Cronauer
• "Seeing as how the VP is such a VIP, shouldn't we keep the PC on the QT? 'cause if it leaks to the VC he could end up an MIA and then we'd all get put on KP." - Robin Williams as Adrian Cronauer
• "Hey we're back, here's the news, all the news that's new and approved by the US Army, the sweetest smelling army in the world!" Robin Williams as Adrian Cronauer
• "You are in more dire need of a blowjob than any white man in history." Robin Williams as Adrian Cronauer
• "Tell him it's nice to bomb in another language." Robin Williams as Adrian Cronauer

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Soundtrack

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Possible sequel

Early in 2007, Robin Williams has been seen "mulling over" a script that was written for a sequel to the movie. Williams has said that he's been "reading over the script and that it's really good so far."^[2] No other information is known yet. Year 2007 (MMVII) is now the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...

References

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External links

• Good Morning, Vietnam at the Internet Movie Database