Good Morning Vietnam was released on December 23, 1987 by Touchstone Pictures – a Disney Studios affiliate company. Directed by Barry Levinson and starring Robin Williams and Forrest Whittaker, the film ended up being very lucrative, earning $125 million and winning Robin Williams a Golden Globe.[1]It was a striking and new interpretation of Vietnam, particularly as close as it was to the end of the actual war, and the idea of a comedy about such a sensitive subject initially made it difficult to get the film idea off the ground. [2] According to Producer Mark Johnson it was “a comedy with a very serious underbelly.”[3]
Below you can view a YouTube clip of the original trailer for the film.[4]
[1] Don Kunz, “Barry Levinson’s Good Morning, Vietnam,” War, Literature, and the Arts 14, no. 1/2 (2002): 230-.
[2] Rick Fredericksen, “Good Morning, Vietnam,” Vietnam (Leesburg, Va.) 30, no. 4 (2017): 36–43.
[3] Rick Fredericksen, “Good Morning, Vietnam,” Vietnam (Leesburg, Va.) 30, no. 4 (2017): 36–43.
[4] Good Morning Vietnam – Trailer., accessed November 12, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mJoHqmtFcQ.
