Directed by : John Woo Produced by : John Woo,Terence Chang,Tracie Graham-Rice,Alison Rosenzweig Written by : John Rice,Joe Batteer Starring : Nicolas Cage,Adam Beach,Roger Willie,Mark Ruffalo,Peter Stormare,Noah Emmerich Christian Slater Music by : James Horner Cinematography : Jeffrey Kimball Editing by : Jeff Gullo,Steven Kemper,Tom Rolf Studio : MGM,Lion Rock Productions Distributed by : MGM Release date(s) : United States:June 14, 2002 Running time : 134 min./153 min. (director's cut) Country : United States Language : Thai,Navajo,Japanese Budget : $100,000,000 Gross revenue : $70,000,000 (Worldwide)
Windtalkers is a 2002 action war film directed by John Woo, director of Face/Off. Nicolas Cage and Christian Slater star as two US Marine sergeants assigned to protect Navajo code talkers in Saip an during World War II. The film begins with then Corporal Joe Enders (Cage) and a platoon of his fellow Marines fightin g Japanese forces on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in 1943. The outnumbered Marines are killed o ne by one, and as Enders mourns over the body of a friend, a grenade explosion knocks Enders unconsc ious.Enders is then transported to a field hospital where he is awarded the Purple Heart, before being tr ansported to a military hospital. By mid-1944 Enders has mostly healed from his physical wounds except for troubled hearing in one ear. Considered unfit for duty unless he can pass a hearing test, a sympathe