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Set in an alternate history timeline in which the United States is invaded at the onset of World War III, RED DAWN follows a group of teenagers that flee into the mountains as Soviet, Nicaraguan, and Cuban paratroopers begin landing on their high school football field. Armed only with hunting rifles, pistols, and bows and arrows, the teens struggle to survive the bitter winter and the Soviet K.G.B. patrols hunting for them. The high school students resist the occupation through guerrilla warfare, calling themselves Wolverines, after their high school mascot. This 1984 American war film was directed by John Milius and stars Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, Charlie Sheen, Jennifer Grey, and Harry Dean Stanton. Red Dawn is noteworthy for being the first movie released with the PG-13 rating. PG-13 / 114 min.