Film · 1989 · Films · 1980s
Born on the Fourth of July
Scored from 193 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
Based on the autobiography of Ron Kovic, this film follows a patriotic young American who enlists in the Marines and is sent to Vietnam, where he is gravely wounded and paralyzed from the chest down. Returning home to a country torn by the war, he struggles with disillusionment, a broken VA system, and personal demons before finding purpose as an outspoken anti-war activist.
Born on the Fourth of July (1989) is a film IMDb files under the biography, drama and war genres.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,617 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 193 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 197 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
Is Born on the Fourth of July (1989) worth watching?
- Cohort
- Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
- Calibrated reviewers
- 193
Cohort: Films · 1980s
