Good Morning, Vietnam

Good Morning, Vietnam is about the controversial radio disc jockey Adrian Cronauer, whom Robin Williams, in a tour de force performance, is said to have made even wilder and more unorthodox than he was in reality.

Together with his colleagues, Cronauer is to pep up the soldiers on the army radio in Saigon during the Vietnam War. Cronauer meets resistance from his superiors, Lieutenant Hauk and Sgt. Major Dickerson, who cannot stomach his irreverent tone and his urge to tell truths that the army command would rather keep out of the public eye.

The episodic structure of Good Morning, Vietnam has given Barry Levinson occasion to cram too many mood pieces and sixties hits into the film, so that it becomes a little too diluted. The film belongs first and foremost to Williams, who is incredibly funny in the midst of all the war, so the film must be called a serious comedy.