Windtalkers
Honor Was Their Code.
Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians who were used to relay messages during World War II because their spoken language was indecipherable to Japanese code breakers.
- Director
- John Woo
- Worldwide
- $78M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
21 billed performers
Story overview
What It's About
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Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians who were used to relay messages during World War II because their spoken language was indecipherable to Japanese code breakers.
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Box Office & Release
Windtalkers returned 0.7× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $115M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $78M
- Release date
- Jun 7, 2002
- Runtime
- 2h 14m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English, Japanese
- Country
- United States of America
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