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.
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Cast
75 people
Nicolas Cage
Sergeant Joe Enders
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Peter Stormare
Sergeant Eric Hjelmstad
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Noah Emmerich
Corporal Charles Rogers
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Mark Ruffalo
Pappas
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Brian Van Holt
Harrigan
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Martin Henderson
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Charlie Whitehorse
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Frances O'Connor
Rita Swelton
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Christian Slater
Sergeant Peter Henderson
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Jason Isaacs
Major Mellitz
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William Morts
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John Woo Director · John Rice Screenplay Joe Batteer Screenplay
Worldwide gross $78M · Budget $115M · United States release June 14, 2002
Box office
Budget
$115,000,000
Worldwide gross
$77,600,000
Gross vs. budget
0.7×
Production
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production · Studio
Lion Rock Productions
Production
United States · Hong Kong SAR China
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · Japanese · Navajo
Release dates
Brazil · June 7, 2002
Theatrical · mj.gov.br - Fox Film do Brasil
United States · June 14, 2002
Theatrical
United States · October 15, 2002
Physical · VHS and DVD release
Argentina
September 12, 2002 · Theatrical
Australia
August 1, 2002 · Theatrical
Austria
October 24, 2002 · Theatrical
Belgium
September 4, 2002 · Theatrical
Brazil
November 1, 2002 · Theatrical
January 10, 2005 · TV · mj.gov.br - TV SBT
May 5, 2005 · Physical · mj.gov.br - 20TH Century Fox Home
Canada
September 1, 2002 · Theatrical
Colombia
September 6, 2002 · Theatrical
Curaçao
September 12, 2002 · Theatrical
Czechia
July 25, 2002 · Theatrical
Denmark
November 1, 2002 · Theatrical
Egypt
September 4, 2002 · Theatrical
Estonia
August 16, 2002 · Theatrical
Finland
October 25, 2002 · Theatrical
France
September 4, 2002 · Theatrical
Germany
August 1, 2002 · Theatrical
Gibraltar
August 14, 2002 · Theatrical
Greece
August 30, 2002 · Theatrical
Greenland
August 9, 2002 · Theatrical
Hong Kong SAR China
June 27, 2002 · Theatrical
Hungary
September 26, 2002 · Theatrical
Iceland
October 4, 2002 · Theatrical
Ireland
August 30, 2002 · Theatrical
Israel
November 7, 2002 · Theatrical
Italy
June 28, 2002 · Theatrical
Japan
August 24, 2002 · Theatrical
February 7, 2003 · Physical · Special Edition VHS and DVD
Kuwait
January 14, 2003 · Theatrical
Latvia
August 16, 2002 · Theatrical
Lithuania
August 16, 2002 · Theatrical
Malaysia
June 20, 2002 · Theatrical
Marshall Islands
June 14, 2002 · Theatrical
Mexico
August 9, 2002 · Theatrical
Netherlands
September 12, 2002 · Theatrical
New Zealand
July 25, 2002 · Theatrical
Norway
July 2, 2002 · Theatrical · Filmquart Film Festival
August 9, 2002 · Theatrical
Peru
September 12, 2002 · Theatrical
Philippines
July 22, 2002 · Theatrical
Poland
August 23, 2002 · Theatrical
Portugal
November 8, 2002 · Theatrical
Romania
August 30, 2002 · Theatrical
Russia
August 8, 2002 · Theatrical
Singapore
June 20, 2002 · Theatrical
Slovakia
July 25, 2002 · Theatrical
South Africa
October 11, 2002 · Theatrical
South Korea
August 15, 2002 · Theatrical
Spain
August 14, 2002 · Theatrical
Sweden
August 9, 2002 · Theatrical
Switzerland
October 10, 2002 · Theatrical
Taiwan
July 26, 2002 · Theatrical
Türkiye
August 9, 2002 · Theatrical
Ukraine
November 29, 2002 · Theatrical
United Kingdom
August 30, 2002 · Theatrical
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