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1992 American legal drama film by Rob Reiner

A Few Good Men
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Directed by Rob Reiner
Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin
Based on A Few Skillful Men
by Aaron Sorkin
Produced by
  • Rob Reiner
  • David Chocolate-brown
  • Andrew Scheinman
Starring
  • Tom Cruise
  • Jack Nicholson
  • Demi Moore
  • Kevin Salary
  • Kevin Pollak
  • James Marshall
  • J. T. Walsh
  • Kiefer Sutherland
Cinematography Robert Richardson
Edited by Robert Leighton
Music by Marc Shaiman

Production
visitor

Castle Rock Entertainment
Distributed by Columbia Pictures

Release dates
  • December 9, 1992 (1992-12-09) (Westwood)
  • December xi, 1992 (1992-12-11) (United states)

Running time

 138 minutes
Country U.s.a.
Language English
Upkeep $33–40 1000000[1] [two]
Box office $243.2 million[i]

A Few Proficient Men is a 1992 American legal drama flick based on Aaron Sorkin's 1989 play. It was written past Sorkin, directed by Rob Reiner, and produced by Reiner, David Chocolate-brown and Andrew Scheinman. It stars an ensemble cast including Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon, Kevin Pollak, J. T. Walsh, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Kiefer Sutherland. The plot follows the court-martial of two U.South. Marines charged with the murder of a fellow Marine and the tribulations of their lawyers as they prepare a instance.

Produced by Castle Rock Entertainment, the film was released by Columbia Pictures on December 11, 1992, and premiered on December 9, 1992, at Westwood. Information technology received acclaim for its screenwriting, management, themes, and acting, especially that of Prowl, Nicholson, and Moore. It grossed more than $243 million on a budget of $forty million, and was nominated for 4 University Awards, including Best Motion picture.[three]

Plot

At the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base of operations in Cuba, Individual William Santiago is a weak Marine, has poor relations with other Marines, and has broken the chain of command to inquire to be transferred away. Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Markinson advocates that Santiago be transferred; still, Base Commander Colonel Nathan Jessup orders Santiago's platoon commander, Lieutenant Jonathan James Kendrick, to "train" Santiago. Santiago dies shortly afterwards. Marines Harold Dawson and Louden Downey are defendant of his murder and confront a court-martial.

While it is believed that the motive in Santiago'southward murder was retribution for naming Dawson in a fenceline shooting into Cuba, Naval investigator and lawyer Joanne Galloway suspects Dawson and Downey carried out a "code red" order: a violent extrajudicial penalty. Galloway wants to defend them, just the case is given to lieutenant Daniel Kaffee, a callow lawyer with a penchant for plea bargains. Galloway is bothered past Kaffee'due south blasé arroyo, and Kaffee resents Galloway's interference.

Kaffee and Galloway question Colonel Jessup and others at Guantanamo Bay. Nether questioning, Jessup claims Santiago was set to be transferred the adjacent twenty-four hours. When Kaffee negotiates a plea bargain with the prosecutor Helm Jack Ross, Dawson and Downey decline, insisting that Kendrick gave them the "lawmaking cerise" order and that they never intended Santiago to die. Dawson sees Kaffee as dishonorable by pursuing a plea bargain over defending their deportment. Kaffee plans to take himself removed as counsel as he sees the trial as pointless. At the arraignment, Kaffee unexpectedly enters a plea of not guilty. He explains to Galloway that he was chosen to handle the instance because he was expected to accept a plea, and the matter would be kept quiet.

Markinson meets Kaffee in secret and says that Jessup never ordered a transfer for Santiago. The defense establishes that Dawson had been denied promotion for smuggling nutrient to a Marine who had been sentenced to go without food, painting Dawson in a good light and proving "code reds" had been ordered before. Even so, Downey, under cross-examination, reveals he was not actually present when Dawson received the supposed "lawmaking red" order. Markinson, ashamed that he failed to protect a Marine nether his command, commits suicide before he can testify.

Without Markinson's testimony, Kaffee believes the instance lost. He returns home in a drunken daze, lamenting that he fought the instance instead of taking a deal. Galloway encourages Kaffee to call Jessup every bit a witness, despite the risk of beingness court-martialed for smearing a high-ranking officer.

Jessup spars with Kaffee's questioning, but is unnerved when Kaffee points out a contradiction in his testimony: Jessup stated his Marines never disobey orders and that Santiago was to be transferred for his ain safety. Kaffee asks why Santiago was in danger if Jessup ordered his men to go out him alone. Disgusted past what he sees every bit Kaffee's impudence towards the Marines, Jessup extols the military'south importance, and his own, to national security. Finally, Jessup bellows with contempt that he ordered the "code cherry-red". Jessup tries to exit the courtroom merely is arrested.

Dawson and Downey are cleared of the murder and conspiracy charges, but found guilty of "acquit unbecoming" and volition be dishonorably discharged. Downey does not empathize what they did incorrect; Dawson explains that they had failed to defend those besides weak to fight for themselves, similar Santiago. Kaffee tells Dawson that he does not need to vesture a patch on his arm to have honor. Dawson sheds his previous contempt for Kaffee, acknowledges him equally an officer, and renders a salute. Kaffee and Ross exchange kudos before Ross departs to arrest Kendrick.

Cast

  • Tom Cruise equally Lieutenant (junior grade) Daniel Kaffee, USN, JAG Corps
  • Jack Nicholson equally Colonel Nathan R. Jessup, USMC
  • Demi Moore equally Lieutenant Commander JoAnne Galloway, USN, JAG Corps
  • Kevin Salary as Captain Jack Ross, USMC, Judge Advocate Segmentation
  • Kiefer Sutherland as First Lieutenant Jonathan James Kendrick, USMC
  • Kevin Pollak equally Lieutenant (junior grade) Sam Weinberg, USN, JAG Corps
  • Wolfgang Bodison as Lance Corporal Harold W. Dawson, USMC
  • James Marshall equally Private First Class Louden Downey, USMC
  • J. T. Walsh as Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Andrew Markinson, USMC
  • J. A. Preston as Judge (Colonel) Julius Alexander Randolph, USMC
  • Michael DeLorenzo as Private First Class William Santiago, USMC
  • Noah Wyle as Corporal Jeffrey Owen Barnes, USMC
  • Republic of cuba Gooding Jr. as Corporal Carl Edward Hammaker, USMC
  • Xander Berkeley as Helm Whitaker, USN
  • Matt Craven as Lieutenant Dave Spradling, USN, JAG Corps
  • John M. Jackson equally Captain West, USN, JAG Corps
  • Christopher Invitee as Commander (Dr.) Stone, USN, MC
  • David Bowe every bit Commander Gibbs, USN JAG Corps
  • Joshua Malina as Tom, Jessup'due south clerk
  • Harry Caesar as newspaper stand up operator Luther
  • Arthur Senzy as Robert C. McGuire, Special Agent - NIS

Cast notes:

  • Joshua Malina is the only player to reprise his office from the original Broadway production.
  • Aaron Sorkin makes a cameo appearance equally a lawyer bragging in a tavern

Product

Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin was inspired to write the source play, A Few Good Men, from a phone conversation with his sister Deborah, who had graduated from Boston University Law School and signed upward for a three-year stint with the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate Full general's Corps.[4] She was going to Guantanamo Bay to defend a group of Marines who had come close to killing a fellow Marine in a hazing ordered past a superior officeholder. Sorkin wrote much of his story on cocktail napkins while bartending at the Palace Theatre on Broadway.[5] He and his roommates had purchased a Macintosh 512K; when he returned home, he would empty his pockets of the napkins and type them into the reckoner, forming a basis from which he wrote many drafts. [6]

In 1988, Sorkin sold the film rights for his play to producer David Brown earlier it premiered, in a deal reportedly "well into six figures".[7] Brown had read an article in The New York Times about Sorkin's ane-act play Subconscious in This Picture, and he found out Sorkin also had a play called A Few Good Men that was having off-Broadway readings.[eight] Brown was producing a few projects at TriStar Pictures, and he tried to interest them in adapting A Few Proficient Men, only his proposal was declined due to the lack of star actors. In 1990, Variety appear that the picture show would be financed by Groupe Culvert+ and Brownish's company Globe Picture show Services. Brown received a call from Alan Horn at Castle Rock Entertainment, who was anxious to brand the film. Rob Reiner, a producing partner at Castle Rock, opted to direct.[eight]

Reiner and Sorkin spent viii months rewriting the script equally a screenplay. William Goldman did an uncredited rewrite; Sorkin liked them so much he incorporated them into the phase version.[9] Ane of the most significant changes was the removal of a forged logbook that served as the trial'south "smoking gun" in the original play.[ commendation needed ]

The film had a production upkeep of between $33 and twoscore million.[1] [2] Tom Cruise was bandage every bit Lt. Kaffee on March 22, 1991, and was given a $12.5 million salary. Demi Moore was cast as LtCmdr. Galloway after waiting in line for her audition despite beingness 8 months pregnant.[x] Wolfgang Bodison was a film location scout when he was asked to have part in a screen test for the part of Dawson.[xi] James Forest auditioned to play Col. Jessup but was beaten for the part by Jack Nicholson. Nicholson was paid $5 million for 10 days of shooting, earning $500,000 a 24-hour interval.[10] Nicholson said "it was one of the few times when it was money well spent," although he later criticized Columbia Pictures for moving the film'south release date to directly compete with his other film Hoffa.[12] [x]

The moving picture starts with a operation of "Semper Fidelis" by a U.Due south. Marine Corps marching band, and a Silent Drill performed by the Texas A&M University Corps of Cadets Fish Drill Team (portraying the U.s. Marine Corps Silent Drill Platoon).[13] [14]

Several former Navy JAG lawyers have been identified as the basis for Cruise's character Lt. Kaffee. These include Don Marcari, now an attorney in Virginia; old U.S. Attorney David Iglesias; Chris Johnson, now practicing in California; and Walter Bansley 3, now practicing in Connecticut. However, in a September 15, 2011, article in The New York Times, Sorkin was quoted as maxim, "The character of Dan Kaffee in A Few Practiced Men is entirely fictional and was non inspired by any particular individual."[15] [16] [17] [18] [19] Cruise modeled his operation after the Church of Scientology'south chairman David Miscavige, with whom he is friends.[20] Cruise also insisted on using the church building's Clearsound sound reproduction applied science, which he claimed captured his voice better.[ten]

Filming began on Oct 21, 1991, at the Arlington Memorial Bridge in Washington D.C. The moving-picture show's Guantanamo Bay scenes were filmed in Southern California at Crystal Cove State Park, Fort MacArthur, and Naval Air Station Signal Mugu. Although 200 off-duty Marines were allowed to serve as extras for the motion picture, the U.S. Department of Defense denied the production permission to film at Marine Corps Base Campsite Pendleton. The court scenes were filmed at Culver Studios in Culver City, California.[ten]

Reception

Box role

A Few Good Men premiered at the Odeon Cinema, Manchester, England,[21] and opened on December 11, 1992, in 1,925 theaters. Information technology grossed $15,517,468 in its opening weekend and was the number-1 movie at the box office for the next three weeks. Overall, it grossed $141,340,178 in the U.S. and $101,900,000 internationally for a total of $243,240,178.[22]

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, A Few Good Men has an approval rating of 83% based on 65 reviews, with an average rating of seven.10/ten. The site's critical consensus reads, "An one-time-fashioned courtroom drama with a gimmicky edge, A Few Good Men succeeds on the forcefulness of its stars, with Tom Prowl, Demi Moore, and especially Jack Nicholson delivering powerful performances that more than compensate for the predictable plot."[23] On Metacritic the film has a score of 62 out of 100, based on 21 critics, indicating "more often than not favorable reviews".[24] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the motion picture an average grade of "A+" on an A+ to F calibration, one of fewer than 60 films in the history of the service to earn the score.[25]

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone said, "That the performances are uniformly outstanding is a tribute to Rob Reiner (Misery), who directs with masterly assurance, fusing suspense and graphic symbol to create a picture that literally vibrates with energy."[26] Richard Schickel in Fourth dimension called it "an extraordinarily well-made movie, which wastes no words or images in telling a conventional but compelling story."[27] Todd McCarthy in Diversity magazine predicted, "The same histrionic fireworks that gripped theater audiences will show even more compelling to filmgoers due to the star power and dramatic screw-tightening."[28] Roger Ebert was less enthusiastic in the Chicago Sun-Times, giving it ii-and-a-one-half out of four stars and finding its major flaw was revealing the court strategy to the audition before the climactic scene between Cruise and Nicholson. Ebert wrote, "In many ways this is a good flick, with the potential to be even amend than that. The flaws are more often than not at the screenplay level; the picture doesn't make us work, doesn't let us to figure out things for ourselves, is afraid we'll miss things if they're not spelled out."[29]

Widescreenings noted that for Tom Prowl's character Daniel Kaffee, "Sorkin interestingly takes the opposite arroyo of Top Gun," where Cruise also starred as the protagonist. In Top Gun, Cruise plays Mitchell who is a "hotshot military underachiever who makes mistakes because he is trying to outperform his late male parent. Where Maverick Mitchell needs to rein in the subject area, Daniel Kaffee needs to let it go, finally meet what he can exercise." Sorkin and Reiner were praised in gradually unveiling Kaffee's potential in the film.[30]

Awards and honors

Other honors

The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:

  • 2003: AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains:
    • Colonel Nathan R. Jessup – Nominated Villain[39]
  • 2005: AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes:
    • Col. Nathan Jessup: "Y'all can't handle the truth!" – #29[40]
  • 2008: AFI'southward 10 Meridian ten:
    • #5 Courtroom Drama Motion-picture show[41]

Home media

A Few Proficient Men was released on VHS and Laserdisc past Columbia TriStar Home Video on June 30, 1993, and released on DVD on Oct 7, 1997. The VHS was once again released forth with a DVD release on May 29, 2001, and subsequently a Blu-Ray release followed on September 8, 2007. The Double Feature of the film and Jerry Maguire was released on DVD on Dec 29, 2009, by Sony Pictures Domicile Entertainment. A 4K UHD Blu-Ray release occurred on April 24, 2018.[42]

Come across also

  • Trial movies

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External links

  • A Few Proficient Men at IMDb
  • A Few Good Men at the TCM Movie Database
  • A Few Expert Men at Rotten Tomatoes
  • A Few Good Men at Metacritic Edit this at Wikidata
  • A Few Practiced Men at AllMovie
  • A Few Skillful Men on AnyClip
  • A Few Practiced Men (1992) moving picture script on sfy.ru

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