This film is based on Pentagon lawyer Adrian Cronauer's life as a DJ during the Vietnam War. He is currently working at the Pentagon in its MIA/POW office.
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Edward Garlick: We got one letter from a man who thought that Hauk's comedy was "visionary and interesting." The other eleven hundred calls say that the man can't do comedy to save his dick! That's a direct quote, sir.
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The movie is set in the mid-sixties. During one of Adrian's manic on-air riffs, he repeats "redrum, redrum.", obviously borrowed from "The Shining", which was released well after the end of the Vietnam War. See more...
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) - 2 trivia entries
Directed by Barry Levinson, starring Forest Whitaker, J.T. Walsh, Robin Williams (add more)
This film is based on Pentagon lawyer Adrian Cronauer's life as a DJ during the Vietnam War. He is currently working at the Pentagon in its MIA/POW office.
When Cronauer and Garlick get stuck in traffic with the Army trucks, Garlick asks the assembled troops to guess who is in the Jeep with him. One of the troops shouts "Mork". Robin Williams played Mork in Mork & Mindy.
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