Looking for a red-white-and-blue flick that will inspire you, check out the 1984 film "Red Dawn" with Patrick Swayze. Approval rating sinks Stop mocking me Get the latest views Submit a column.

Red Dawn is not brat pack movie, but it’s got a quintessential cast of young actors who made their name in the ’80s including Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, Lea Thompson, Jennifer Grey, and C ...

In the summer of 1984, most of the young stars of “Red Dawn” were relatively unknown, although some had appeared in the 1983 hit coming-of-age film “The Outsiders,” with C.

Later, the 2003 mission to capture Saddam Hussein was codenamed OPERATION RED DAWN, with the target labeled WOLVERINE I. Army Captain Geoffrey McMurray, who chose the name, said “I think all of ...

On August 10, 1984, Red Dawn stormed into theaters. The Cold War-era film envisioned a WWIII-like scenario of what it would look like if Communist Soviets and Cubans invaded a small Colorado town ...

Photo: MGM “I was smoking a lot of weed in those days, too,” she added. “And so, I was super paranoid, and I was scared. I didn’t sleep the whole night.

Red Dawn came out in the summer leading up to that election. Audiences accepted it as an old-fashioned cheer-for-the-heroes film. To most critics, the film was a hokey bit of flag-waving pandering.