Can you handle the truth? Cracker(JACK) cast & script with Reiner at the top of his game

george.schmidt

A FEW GOOD MEN (1992) ***1/2  Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon, Keifer Sutherland, Kevin Pollak, James Marshall, JT Walsh, Wolfgang Bodison, Christopher Guest, Noah Wyle.   Absorbing and crowd-pleasing adaptation of Aaron Sorkin's hit Broadway play from director Rob Reiner about two Marines charged with the murder of a fellow GI at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba with a tangled web of power and a green defense lawyer (excellently played by Cruise) assigned to follow the motions without a trial.  Superb performances all around especially Nicholson in rare form as a colonel with one hell of a Napoleon complex.  Trivial note: Bodison was a production assistant to Reiner from previous films; this is his acting debut.

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george.schmidt 13 March 2003

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